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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

promotion in other fields including biomedical science, physical science, political science, mathematics and statistics, and …

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Congestion on the Information Superhighway : Does Economics Have a Working Papers Problem?

Lusher, Lester; Yang, Winnie; Carrell, Scott E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Publishing takes a long time in economics. Consequently, many authors release "working" versions of their papers. Using data on the NBER working paper series, we show that the dissemination of economics research suffers from an overcrowding problem: An increase in the number of weekly released...

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Household Financial Transaction Data

Baker, Scott; Küng, Lorenz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

potential for this flexible class of data in firm-focused research, real-time policy analysis, and macro statistics …

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Ten Years after the Financial Crisis : What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?

Ramey, Valerie A. - 2019

This paper takes stock of what we have learned from the "Renaissance" in fiscal research in the ten years since the financial crisis. I first summarize the new innovations in methodology and discuss the various strengths and weaknesses of the main approaches. Reviewing the estimates, I come to...

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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five

Heckman, James J. - 2018

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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Fifty Shades of QE : Conflicts of Interest in Economic Research

Fabo, Brian - 2020

Central banks sometimes evaluate their own policies. To assess the inherent conflict of interest, we compare the research findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers report larger...

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RCTs to Scale : Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2020

-analyses. In papers published in academic journals, the average impact of a nudge is very large - an 8.7 percentage point take …-up effect, a 33.5% increase over the average control. In the Nudge Unit trials, the average impact is still sizable and highly … the impact for the Nudge Unit interventions, though nudge practitioners are almost perfectly calibrated …

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Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture

Moser, Petra - 2020

Feeding the world's growing population is one of the most critical policy challenges for the 21st century. With …

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Historical Data : Where to Find Them, How to Use Them

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the influence of the past on current economic outcomes; to use unique natural experiments to test modern economic theories; and to use modern economic theories to refine our understanding...

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Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars

Dupas, Pascaline; Sasser, Alicia; Niederle, Muriel; … - Seminar Dynamics Collective; National Bureau of … - 2021

This paper reports the results of the first systematic attempt at quantitatively measuring the seminar culture within economics and testing whether it is gender neutral. We collected data on every interaction between presenters and their audience in hundreds of research seminars and job market...

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