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Forecasts of experimental results can clarify the interpretation of research results, mitigate publication bias, and … Journal of Development Economics, randomly varying four features: (1) small versus large reference values; (2) whether …
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The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic "natural experiment," outlining a methodology identifying the "citation death tax" -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a...
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purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus makers. Unlike private vehicles, the fuel economy of public buses is … irresponsive to fuel price changes. To understand this finding, we build a model of bus fleet management decisions of local transit … agencies that yields testable hypotheses. Our empirical analysis of bus fleet turnover and capital investment suggests that …
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dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … bus expenses and time saved on travel. Skilled employed women increase labor supply, while low-skill married women shift …
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for the rank of, say, a particular journal as well as simultaneous confidence sets for the ranks of all journals. We apply …
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economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking … increase in the relative supply of research in the rest of the world. But they also indicate authors from developing countries …
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recommendations of economic research at the Journal of Human Resources (JHR). Our empirical strategy employs several dimensions of …
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We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find …
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This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...
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We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of … more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …
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