Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015), pp. 1-38
This paper presents the results of a text based exploratory study of over 20,000 academic articles published in seven top research journals from 1960 - 2010. The goal is to investigate the general research foci of economists over the last fifty years, how (if at all) they have changed over time,...