-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find …

economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking … economy. Developing country representation has risen fastest at journals rated 100th or lower, while it has barely increased … in journals rated 25th or higher. Fields such as international or development where global diversification may have been …

Economists are obsessed with rankings of institutions, journals, or scholars according to the value of some feature of … for the rank of, say, a particular journal as well as simultaneous confidence sets for the ranks of all journals. We apply … these confidence sets to draw inferences about uncertainty in the ranking of economics journals and universities by impact …

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

Over the past decade there has been a decline in the fraction of papers in top economics journals written by economists …