The Economics Olympics: Ranking U.S. Economics Departments Based on Prizes,Medals, and Other Awards

This study ranks the top 25 U.S. economics departments on the basis of four prestigious awards won/held by these departments' current faculty: the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association's (AEA's) Distinguished Fellow Award, and the American Economic Association's Richard T. Ely Lecturer. Based on our methodology, the top economics department is affiliated with the University of Chicago. This distinction stems from its affiliation with six Nobel Prize winners, four Clark Medal winners, and two participants each in the AEA Distinguished Fellow and Richard T. Ely Lecturer categories.     

Publications in mathematical economics and econometrics: ranking of Asian universities and an application of Zipf's law

This paper ranks Asian universities in two related economics fields: mathematical economics and econometrics. Key findings are that Japanese universities dominate in mathematical economics, while Hong Kong universities are fairly evenly balanced in these two specialty areas of quantitative economics. The results of the analysis also show that Zipf's law applies to research-based university rankings.     

The Gender Gap in Economics Degrees: An Investigation of the Role Model and Quantitative Requirements Hypotheses

Using a panel of 159 institutions over 10 years, we investigate the role model effect of women faculty and quantitative requirements on the female proportion of undergraduate economics majors. We find no evidence that female faculty attract female students. Calculus, however, does matter. A one semester calculus requirement is associated with more female majors at institutions offering business degrees and liberal arts colleges. A second semester calculus requirement deters women from majoring in economics at Ph.D.–granting universities, but is associated with more female majors at liberal arts colleges. Econometrics requirements are unrelated to the gender gap in economics majors.     

An updated ranking of the economic research institutions in China (2000–2009)

This paper ranks the economic research institutions in China based on publications in the SSCI economics journals from 2000 through 2009 and finds that the gap in the research capacity of economic research institutions between the mainland and Hong Kong is very large, even though the difference in overall quality is not so significant. This paper can reflect successes and failures of the reform of the economics education in China over the past decade and give important implications for the ongoing reforms as well.     

Ranking Economics Journals,Economics Departments,and Economists Using Teaching-Focused Research Productivity

This paper constructs new rankings of economics journals, economics departments, and economists that employ a measure of teaching-focused research productivity, an area of growing importance in recent years. The ranking methodologies presented here use information from articles that were published from 1991 through the early part of 2005 within the Journal of Economic Literature's “economic education” classifications (A200-A290). The Journal of Economic Literature tops the list of journals, followed by the Review of Economics and Statistics and the American Economic Review. Among the top institutions are Vanderbilt University, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin. Others that rank high here, such as Oberlin College and Denison University, do not often fare as well using methodologies that evaluate more traditional types of economics research. Finally, among the economists we find that John Siegfried, William Becker, and Michael Watts are ranked above other economists.     

Teaching Preparation and Placement in “Non‐top‐tier” Ph.D. Programs

In a recent article, Jacobson (2015) provides an invaluable economics job market guide for economics Ph.D. candidates from “non‐top‐tier” programs in the United States. Her treatment is detailed and, to a large extent, thorough. However, Jacobson fails to discuss the development of effective lead teaching experience in graduate school as a (potentially central) aspect of job market preparation. In the present comment, we develop and summarize a job posting and placement data set that focuses on Ph.D. candidates from non‐top‐tier programs. The data strongly suggests that the development of lead teaching experience in graduate school, rather than an optional line on one's vita, is an often pivotal element of realized job placement for Ph.D. candidates of non‐top‐tier programs. These findings corroborate with List's (2000) finding that, “a candidate's teaching portfolio was highly influential in the academic market” (p. 197). We also discuss the acquisition of lead teaching experience and benefits of early teaching experience that may extend beyond first job placement.     

顶级中文经济学期刊存在编辑部偏爱吗?

文章收集和整理2000年至2011年《经济研究》、《世界经济》、《经济学季刊》、《金融研究》、《中国工业经济》五个顶级经济学期刊发表的8034篇论文数据,研究编辑部是否存在"裙带主义"、"精英主义"和"性别主义"的偏好行为。发现在论文发表过程中,无论是总引用数据,还是年度引用数据的回归显示：偏爱985高校和男性第一作者的"精英主义"和"性别主义",都没有得到证据支持。从每年引用的层面看,中国五大期刊均没有表现出编辑部偏爱本单位作者的"裙带主义"的证据。从论文排序的角度看,文章发现对于总引用和年度引用样本的检验,都不支持存在编辑关于排序的三种偏爱行为。在进一步考虑了名校效应之后,文章发现五大期刊在发表过程中仅有个别期刊在样本期内存在显著的"裙带主义"偏爱现象。     

The relative quality of black economists

This paper identifies the top black economists and ranks them in terms of their quality. The measure used as the indicator of quality is the number of citations received by an individual economist. It is argued that citations represent influence in that they reflect the degree to which others have found that work to be useful in their research and are an indication of the amount of recognition an economist’s research has received. Using citation tabulations as the measure of quality, the rankings of the top twenty economists were calculated.     

Trade, Institutions, and Credit

Within economics there has been a mounting interest in institutions. Virtually all the work to date on institutions has examined a single institution. The problem is that in many settings the performance of the institution under examination is affected by other, unexamined institutions. This paper examines the relationship between two types of private-order institutions that facilitated trade in a specific setting—Mexican California during the 1830s and 1840s. The surviving evidence suggests that a multilateral institution enabled merchants to extend credit to their retail customers, and a similar multilateral institution enabled the merchants to extend credit to one another. The relationship between these institutions makes them of particular interest. This relationship arose because local communities imposed costs on merchants that affected their trade with one another. The barriers to entry and exit posed by these costs, in turn, facilitated the operation and persistence of the institution that supported intermerchant trade. They also precluded other organizational forms such as the vertical integration of wholesalers.     

How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Market

This article conveys information and advice about the job market process for candidates completing their PhDs in economics in the United States. I discuss the mechanics of the job market process in great detail, from the preparatory work before the market starts to the steps after accepting an offer. Throughout, I answer common job market‐related questions and discuss ways to make the process more manageable and less stressful. The focus is on students from non‐top‐tier universities, although the advice applies equally well to students from top schools.     

Chinese universities economic research output 2000–2010

This study analyses the publishing output of Chinese authors in a group of leading economics journals over the period 2000–2010. We find that the output distribution across institutions is unevenly distributed, but within institutions there is a relatively more even spread. Research output has more than doubled over the period and is comparable with South Korean and Japanese output. Authors associated with US institutions have been an important source of research output growth. However, domestic output has also been increasing. Econometrics is the main field of output growth.     

业主自治的本质与实现的制度经济学分析

从制度经济学的角度,商业化住宅小区内共有部位形成的共有产权以及共同的生活区域所需的自然与人文环境构成全体业主的共享资源.由于排他性的困难,共享资源的治理一般被视为"多人囚徒困境"的博弈场景,因而业主自治制度的本质就是实现共享资源自发治理集体行动的制度安排.文章从现实生活中制度培育与演化角度,认为业主自治制度的实现需要契约和治理结构等正式制度以及群体规范等非正式制度的结合作用,并具体讨论了各自的主要内容和运行机制.     

On Economics and Religion

Summary This essay reviews the literature on the economics of religion in the perspective of the current debate on norms and values in the Netherlands and elsewhere. The main emphasis is on religion as an institution. It also considers the role of institutions for prosperity and stability in society.     

The Effects of State Merit Aid Programs on Attendance at Elite Colleges

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out of state. Using the U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we explore how this reduction in out‐of‐state enrollment differs by the academic quality of the institution. Our difference‐in‐differences results suggest that state merit aid programs do not induce students to forgo attending top 15 ranked schools. However, state merit aid does induce some students to forgo attending out‐of‐state schools ranked below the top 15 and shifts them toward lower quality in‐state schools, so that the net effect is a reduction in academic quality, as measured by USNWR. These effects may have long‐term implications for students' degree completion rates and labor market earnings.     

关于农业中介组织的内涵与起因探究

文章从五个方面对农业中介组织的内涵进行界定,并从新制度经济学的角度对其产生的原因进行了探究.     

Job training and organizational performance: Analyses from medical institutions in China

The benefit of training on economic outcomes has been well-documented in previous literature, as training is generally recognized as one of the important approaches in human capital investment. However, the return of employee training on organizational level performance is not verified sufficiently, especially in the healthcare field. By taking advantage of a dataset with the information on all medical institutions in Sichuan, China over 2012–2016, this paper investigates the effects of employee training on medical institution’s performance through the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method and the Event Study approach. The results show that training benefits medical institution performance in some indicators, such as total visits, outpatient visits, non-medical-insurance, and local competitiveness. These effects, however, vary across different types of medical institutions. Grassroot medical institutions in the county area that serve as a health gatekeeper (known as primary health care institution, PHCIs) gain most in hospital visits after training. In addition, training results in a 16.5% increase in the average performance wage for county-PHCIs, and a 52.8% increase in the employees’ performance wage for higher-level general hospitals in cities. In general, by participating in training, PHCIs in county region gain more in the overall revenue through the non-medical-insurance income.     

天津市旅游制度环境现状与建设思路

天津市旅游经历了一个从政府强制性政策法规调控为主的制度环境发展到逐渐以旅游市场基础配置为主、政府宏观调控为辅的制度环境。本文借助于制度经济学的基本理论对天津市旅游制度环境的现状及其对旅游产业的影响进行了分析,并提出了建设思路。     

Nosy Preferences,Benevolence, and Efficiency

We explore the implications of “nosy” preferences—when individuals have rankings over the specific actions of others—using recent theoretical results in the behavioral economics literature. Our model jointly captures preference interdependence over utilities (benevolence) and actions (nosiness). We apply the model to two well‐known environments. The first is a classic social choice problem; the second is a model of relative consumption concerns. For the former we characterize the existence of the impossibility once the social choice problem has been modeled as a behavioral game. For the latter we characterize when the negative externality arising from relative consumption concerns can be overcome without a policy intervention.     

产业网络化的系统经济学解读:以计算机全球生产网络为例

本文基于系统经济思想构建了技术、制度与产业组织协同创新的理论分析框架,对计算机全球生产网络形成演变过程进行再解读。研究结果表明:在全球化背景下,体现在要素全球流动与柔性生产的技术创新推动制度创新,形成以模块化生产和网络治理为特色的新技术制度系统;新技术制度系统促进产业组织创新——产业网络化,其空间响应的结果是形成全球生产网络。并通过对全球生产网络空间竞争性的分析引出对我国建设创新型国家(城市、城区)战略的关注,并得出启示。     

Minorities’ Fields of Expertise in Economics and Employment Demand in These Fields

Efforts by public and private institutions to increase the number of minorities participating in graduate economics programs has contributed to a growing supply of Ph. D. trained minority economists. However, minorities are still under-represented as faculty members in economics departments. This presidential address explores whether the concentration of minorities in a few fields of specialization creates a demand-supply mismatch for these individuals.