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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 Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Smart, Scott - 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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Co-Authorship in Economic History and Economics : Are We Any Different?

Seltzer, Andrew - 2017

Over the last six decades articles published in leading economic history journals have been less likely to be co …-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics … journals there have been strong, monotonic increases in the number of authors per article and the fraction of co …

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

Feenberg, Daniel R. - 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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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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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

Stoddard, Christiana - 2010

respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and …

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U.S. Inequality, Fiscal Progressivity, and Work Disincentives : An Intragenerational Accounting

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2016

This study combines the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances data and the Fiscal Analyzer, a highly detailed life-cycle consumption-smoothing program, to a) measure ultimate economic inequality – inequality in lifetime spending power – within cohorts, b) assess fiscal...

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Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms

Danaher, Brett - 2015

filesharing displaces sales of media goods and then discuss whether such displacement will lead to reduced incentives to produce …

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