In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … a critical review of the literature. We argue that economists know little about the empirically relevant determinants of …

gender, prestige of author's institution, article content (theory vs. empiricism), and whether the author has ties to the …

-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …

impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on the demand for money and the quantity theory of money; the transmission …

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate … places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too--with more than enough warts …

Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each … fewer papers that represent pure theory, regardless of sub-field, somewhat less empirical work based on publicly available …

tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …

attention in the economics literature. In this paper, we present a simple model which predicts the core symptoms of depression …

Alphabetical name order is the norm for joint publications in economics. However, alphabetical order confers greater …