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Mueller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2017

ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice …Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an …, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives replication. Here we investigate how often replication studies are …

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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...

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Does Economics Make You Sexist?

Paredes, Valentina; Paserman, M. Daniele; Pino, Francisco J. - 2020

Recent research has highlighted unequal treatment for women in academic economics along several different dimensions: promotion, hiring, credit for co-authorship, and standards for publication in professional journals. Can the source of these differences lie in biases against women that are...

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Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?

Hadavand, Aboozar; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2021

Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in other social sciences and finance. It is even relatively slower at the extremes. We demonstrate that much of the lag, especially at the extremes, arises from authors' dilatory...

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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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The Demographic and Research Styles of Economics Writing

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2025

This study examines publications in three leading general economics journals from the 1960s through the 2020s, considering levels and trends in the demographics of authors, methodologies of the studies, and patterns of co-authorship. The average age of authors has increased nearly steadily;...

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Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?

Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021

variations may be explained by bureaucrats' professionalism, as measured by their educational background or work experience in … public health or medicine. To investigate the effects of officials' professionalism on their response to and performance in … rapidly than those lacked such backgrounds. Our findings highlight the importance of professionalism in combating the pandemic. …

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Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope

Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai - 2024

This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...

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From estimation resultsto stylized facts: Twelve recommendations for empirical research in international activities of heterogeneous firms

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

firm performance; replication; within-study replication by international research teams; meta-analysis; and talking to …

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