publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to …

in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …

method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …%, and the rest of Europe slightly more. Interestingly, more than a quarter of these elite UK articles came from outside the …

the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior … cannot determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer … measures of salary discrimination that adjust for measured productivity may be flawed. We derive the magnitude of the bias …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by …

at three leading economics conferences over the 2006-2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference …

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear … unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper … shows how to recover an unbiased estimate of discrimination when the correspondence study includes variation in applicant …