-2017), and the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2017), we find that all-female-authored papers are 3.2 p.p. (6.8%) less likely …

-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are …

of Australian economists to the scholarly and public debates about these policies. Our analysis documents the value of … played by many Australian economists as apologists for Australia's most catastrophic peacetime economic policy failure. We …

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links … between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its … elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best …

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century …, the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for …

, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …