We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their male counterparts, female candidates are less (more)...

Ethische Prinzipen für den Forschungsprozess selbst und dessen Transfer ("Verwertung") sind nur durch Selbstdisziplin der Akteure durchsetzbar - für das erlernen dieser professionellen Disziplin sind nicht Formulare und Kommissionen, sondern die Lehre und Ausbildung des Nachwuchses zentral....

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the conven-tion in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Pro-fessor A, who has been a first author more...

We study 6000 author-publication observations to investigate predictors of early career success in six fields of Economics. Concentrating on top researchers enables us to control for the effects of ability and effort, and focusing on the start of their careers minimizes distortions from...

Using novel and large-scale data at the individual level, we find that an author publishes more articles when a coauthor joins an editorial board, both in the "coauthor's" journal and in other journals. This effect is larger, the less experienced the author is, and disappears quickly once the...

This study examines whether the coauthors of executive editors of the Review of Financial Studies published more papers during the editor’ tenure. The paper finds that not all executive editors are created equal concerning their impartiality toward their coauthors. The results show that George...

It is well documented that women and racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the economics profession, relative to both the general population and many other academic disciplines. Less is known about the socioeconomic diversity of the profession. In this paper, we use data from the...

Using two identification strategies, we demonstrate a positive relationship between the connectedness of a PhD adviser (in the coauthor network) and the placement of her student. In method one, identification is achieved by using changes in the centrality of the adviser’s coauthors in the year...

Ethische Prinzipen für den Forschungsprozess selbst und dessen Transfer ("Verwertung") sind nur durch Selbstdisziplin der Akteure durchsetzbar - für das erlernen dieser professionellen Disziplin sind nicht Formulare und Kommissionen, sondern die Lehre und Ausbildung des Nachwuchses zentral....