Similar Search Results

Male gatekeepers gender bias in the publishing process?

Bransch, Felix; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017

Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738846

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510622

Star Wars : the empirics strike back

Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376899

Publishing and promotion in economics : the tyranny of the top five

Heckman, James J.; Moktan, Sidharth - 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924952

Star Wars : the empirics strike back

Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - 2013

Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721391

Early career research production in economics : does mentoring matter?

García, Andrés; Otero, Jesús G.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2018

We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950764

What's worth knowing? : economists' opinions about economics

Andre, Peter; Falk, Armin - 2021

We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists' opinions are vastly … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588647