A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel properties of the data to control for unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for...

Psychology : the three antinomies of greed -- Mathematics : why physics is value free and economics isn't -- Money : the distinguishing idea of economics -- Price : the law of supply and demand works backward -- Labor : where it all begins -- Goods : which keep it going -- Capital : saving and...