-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 …

Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest … spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important …

Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest … spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important …

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 …