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 …

Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this … greater selfishness is due to economics education. This paper offers empirical evidence against this widely held belief. Using … that economics education does not make people act more selfishly. Rather, this natural experiment suggests that the …

723 top economics scholars using the number of pages indexed by Google and Bing as a measure of their external influence …

This study investigates the determinants of economists’ life satisfaction. The analysis is based on a survey of … professional, mostly academic economists from European countries and beyond. We find that certain features of economists … perceived change of pressure in recent years has. Economists may have accepted a high level of pressure when entering academia …

723 top economics scholars using the number of pages indexed by Google and Bing as a measure of their external influence …