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funds, teaching, administration) is associated with different attitudes towards science and the workplace among economists … working at Dutch universities. Based on latent class analysis one can detect a clear divide among economists. Approximately … two thirds of the economists perceives that this pressure has more downsides than upsides and one third only perceives …
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academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
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economists in 19 countries, we examine the effect of ideological bias on views among economists. Participants were asked to … evaluate statements from prominent economists on different topics, while source attribution for each statement was randomized …-/non-mainstream, or removing them, significantly reduces economists' reported agreement with statements. This contradicts the image …
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This essay commemorates James M. Buchanan's life and work by reflecting on my 50 years of association with him, starting in 1963 when I entered graduate school at the University of Virginia and ending with his death in 2013. This essay does not try to add to the substantial secondary literature...
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We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and …, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps …-WOK, published by 5,188 economists from Spanish institutions, and their co-authors, up to 8,202 researchers, from 2002 to 2014, to …
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We investigate economics PhDs minted at German, Austrian, and Swiss universities from 1991 to 2008. We find that cohort sizes increased overall, and the share of PhDs who publish in a peer-reviewed journal within six years after graduation increased from 18% in 1991 to 46% in 2008. Publishing...
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We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … pressure in recent years is positively related to economists' life satisfaction. An explanation is that economists have …
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This guide, updated for the 2014-15 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
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relaunching the “Recollections of Eminent Economists” series, which used to be published in both English and Italian, respectively … in BNL Quarterly Review and Moneta e Credito. The “Recollections of Eminent Economists” series was launched in 1978, with …
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