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What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics

Chetty, Raj - 2020

journals' policies could substantially expedite peer review at little cost. More generally, price incentives, nudges, and … incentives significantly improve speed, especially in the week before the deadline. Cash payments do not crowd out intrinsic … motivation: after the cash treatment ends, referees who received cash incentives are no slower than those in the four …

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The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a sample of 428 papers written by 16 well known economists who died …

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A Game Theoretic Foundation of Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection

Netzer, Nick - 2012

We construct a fully specified extensive form game that captures competitive markets with adverse selection. In particular, it allows firms to offer any finite set of contracts, so that cross-subsidization is not ruled out. Moreover, firms can withdraw from the market after initial contract...

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A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts

Green, Jerry; Stokey, Nancy L. - 2021

Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agents' output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is common to all the agents. The...

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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

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Theory and Measurement : Emergence, Consolidation and Erosion of a Consensus

Biddle, Jeff - 2016

paradigms in the profession by coding the content of all applied micro articles published in the “Top 5 journals” in 1951 … market for economists still pays a wage premium to theorists …

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A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Smart, Scott B. - 2015

Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the legitimate determinants of the outcome of interest, for example wages and productivity. While few contexts provide data adequate to the task of measuring discrimination, copious...

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Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing : Who and How?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012

Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each … rightward. In the last two decades the fraction of older authors has almost quadrupled. The top journals are now publishing many …

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It's Good to Be First : Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers

Feenberg, Daniel - 2015

more than 23,000 subscribers, both inside and outside academia, and the placement order is based on random factors. We show …

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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. And Germany

Bell, Linda A.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...

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