datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I compare the data and methods of three investigative journalism articles and two …

Economics is not only a social science, it is a genuine science. Like the physical sciences, economics uses a …, economics stresses three factors that distinguish it from other social sciences. Economists use the construct of rational … have allowed economics to invade intellectual territory that was previously deemed to be outside the discipline's realm …

The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …

clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between … economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of economic scholarship are measured here by the way other disciplines … cite us. We document a clear rise in the extramural influence of economic research, while also showing that economics is …

knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we …

In the United States today the academic field of economic history is much closer to economics than it is to history in … terms of professional behavior, a stylized fact that I call the “integration of economic history into economics”. I document … history and economics; and publication histories of successive cohorts of PhDs in the first decade since receiving the …