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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five

Heckman, James J. - 2018

in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications … has become the obsession of the next generation of economists. However, the T5 screen is far from reliable. A substantial …

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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit : The Story of Economic Genius

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011

really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate … places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too--with more than enough warts … economists might be interested in their history at all …

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Theory and Measurement : Emergence, Consolidation and Erosion of a Consensus

Biddle, Jeff - 2016

market for economists still pays a wage premium to theorists …

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Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis : A Bridge between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods

Chetty, Raj - 2008

The debate between quot;structuralquot; and quot;reduced-formquot; approaches has generated substantial controversy in applied economics. This article reviews a recent literature in public economics that combines the advantages of reduced-form strategies -- transparent and credible...

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Ten Years after the Financial Crisis : What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?

Ramey, Valerie A. - 2019

This paper takes stock of what we have learned from the “Renaissance” in fiscal research in the ten years since the financial crisis. I first summarize the new innovations in methodology and discuss the various strengths and weaknesses of the main approaches. Reviewing the estimates, I come...

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Partial Identification in Applied Research : Benefits and Challenges

Ho, Kate - 2015

Advances in the study of partial identification allow applied researchers to learn about parameters of interest without making assumptions needed to guarantee point identification. We discuss the roles that assumptions and data play in partial identification analysis, with the goal of providing...

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The Promise and Potential of Linked Employer-Employee Data for Entrepreneurship Research

Goetz, Christopher - 2015

In this paper, we highlight the potential for linked employer-employee data to be used in entrepreneurship research, describing new data on business start-ups, their founders and early employees, and providing examples of how they can be used in entrepreneurship research. Linked...

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An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science : with an Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi - 2017

Novel empirical insights by their very nature tend to be unanticipated, and in some cases at odds with the current state of knowledge on the topic. The mechanics of statistical inference suggest that such initial findings, even when robust and statistically significant within the study, should...

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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction : Through Our Classes, Darkly

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

The past half-century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to “explain” economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied...

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The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

Einav, Liran - 2015

Many believe that "big data" will transform business, government and other aspects of the economy. In this article we discuss how new data may impact economic policy and economic research. Large-scale administrative datasets and proprietary private sector data can greatly improve the way we...

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