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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This study uses data from Academic Analytics to examine gender differences in promotion to associate professor in economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant...

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Fifty Shades of QE : Conflicts of Interest in Economic Research

Fabo, Brian - 2020

research findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative …

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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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Congestion on the Information Superhighway : Does Economics Have a Working Papers Problem?

Lusher, Lester; Yang, Winnie; Carrell, Scott E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Publishing takes a long time in economics. Consequently, many authors release "working" versions of their papers. Using data on the NBER working paper series, we show that the dissemination of economics research suffers from an overcrowding problem: An increase in the number of weekly released...

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Language Models and Cognitive Automation for Economic Research

Korinek, Anton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have the potential to revolutionize research in economics and other disciplines. I describe 25 use cases along six domains in which LLMs are starting to become useful as both research assistants and tutors: ideation, writing, background research, data...

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Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars

Dupas, Pascaline; Sasser, Alicia; Niederle, Muriel; … - Seminar Dynamics Collective; National Bureau of … - 2021

findings add to an emerging literature documenting ways in which women economists are treated differently than men, and suggest …

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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 C. - 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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One Hundred Years of Exchange Rate Economics at The University of Chicago : 1892-1992

Edwards, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In this paper I analyze the work on exchange rates and external imbalances by University of Chicago faculty members during the university's first hundred years, 1892-1992. Many people associate Chicago's views with Milton Friedman's advocacy for flexible exchange rates. But, of course, there was...

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Unveiling Specialization Trends in Economics Research : A Large-Scale Study Using Natural Language Processing and Citation Analysis

Galiani, Sebastián; Gálvez, Ramiro H.; Nachman, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article presents a comprehensive analysis of trends in the publication and citation of economics scholarly research, with a focus on specialization within fields of economics research (i.e., applied, applied theory, econometrics methods, and theory). We collected detailed data on 24,273...

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

Biddle, Jeff E. - 2016

market for economists still pays a wage premium to theorists …

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