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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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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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-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 …
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Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each …
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We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...
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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 …
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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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phenomenon in a particularly interesting context: consumer response to the ordering of economics papers in an email announcement …
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unexpected sub-fields of economics, but limited evidence that they are more likely to write dissertations on racial topics once …
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-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender … names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite … stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …
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