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Home Bias in Top Economics Journals
Bethmann, Dirk; Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael; … - 2023
Two of the top economics journals have institutional ties to a specific university, the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) to Harvard University and the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) to the University of Chicago. Researchers from Harvard, but also nearby Massachusetts Institute of...
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Math, Girls and Socialism
Lippmann, Quentin; Senik, Claudia - 2018
This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873536
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Math, girls and socialism
Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018
This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936655
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Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?
Hadavand, Aboozar; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2019
articles by their subsequent citation histories, holding constant their sub-fields, authors' demographics and prior citations …
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Influence in Economics and Aging
Jelnov, Pavel; Weiss, Yoram - 2021
future Nobel laureates do not experience deterioration of the rankings if their works and citations are discounted by … recursive impact factor, and their ranking with respect to the breadth of citations across fields improves at old age. …
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Do Twitter's Science Stars Get a Citation Premium?
Lessmann, Christian; Önder, Ali Sina - 2023
report, pays off in terms of an increased number of citations. To establish a causal relationship, we use the COVID-19 global … difference-in-differences analysis for annual incoming citations of the two groups. We find that the Twitter star status added … about 1.07 extra citations following the breakout of COVID-19 per year per article, corresponding to about 70% of the …
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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US
Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - 2014
greater homophily is associated with publication in lower impact journals and with fewer citations, even holding fixed the … get published in higher impact journals and receive more citations than others. These findings suggest that diversity in … and citations. …
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The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015
citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500324
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Influence in Economics and Aging
Jelnov, Pavel; Weiss, Yoram - 2020
We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from...
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
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