, economics still lags many other fields. Previous research has documented gender gaps in tenure, promotion and publication, some …

This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at … one planned in advance but one that evolved via the marketplace for ideas. -- Nobel economists ; economic thought …

Which schools of thought are favored by German economists? What makes a good economist and which economists have been … ‘Verein für Socialpolitik’, the association of German speaking economists. An econometric analysis is used to identify to what … economists favor Neoclassics as a school of thought and appreciate the contributions of their Anglo-Saxon colleagues much more …

probability of being tenured than economists. Youth, marital status, and publications matter; gender and children do not. The … market for first appointments in economics relies much more on publication performance than the market for business …

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 …