Does article placement by journal editors influence the number of citations an article receives? Articles that appeared in eight top economics journals in 1990 were examined. Holding constant author quality, article length, journal quality and subject area, the empirical results show that the...

Peltzman [Peltzman, S., 1984. Constituent interest and congressional voting. Journal of Law and Economics 27, 181-210] argues that if constituents' economic interests have well-defined "winners and losers" and are appropriately measured, then constituents' economic interests, and not legislator...

This study addresses the question of what the relative input relationship is between co-authors in economics. Using the direct addilog production function, the partial elasticities of substitution between co-authors are estimated. The empirical results suggest that co-authors in economics are...

This paper shows that a state's abortion policy is determined by the strength of interest advocacy groups and political forces. The greater the membership in the National Abortion Rights Action League, the percentage of female state legislators and the percentage of Democratic female...