IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12354

Mario Bossler, Christopher Osiander, Julia Schmidtke, Mark Trappmann

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Social determinants of citations: An empirical analysis of UK economists 引文的社会决定因素：英国经济学家的实证分析

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-08-09 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12352

Carlo D'Ippoliti, Lucio Gobbi, Christian A. Mongeau Ospina, Giulia Zacchia

{"title":"Social determinants of citations: An empirical analysis of UK economists","authors":"Carlo D'Ippoliti, Lucio Gobbi, Christian A. Mongeau Ospina, Giulia Zacchia","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12352","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate to what extent personal proximity and similarity in professional and political attributes, besides scientific factors, help explaining citations between economists. We do so by using a unique dataset of all academic economists based in the United Kingdom, created specifically for this study by merging RePEc data on works published in the past four decades with information collected by manually processing their curriculum vitae (CVs). We investigate directed citations within each pair of authors active in a same year, finding that social factors play an important role as predictors of citations. An author is systematically more likely to cite another economist not only if they work on similar topics, but most relevantly if they have been co-authors, faculty colleagues, alumni of the same Alma Mater, and even if they express similar political views. The implication is that citations do not signal the intrinsic quality of research outputs only, but they also capture social and professional connections. When citation counts are used to reward academics, economists have an incentive to join many and large professional communities as doing so would increase their predicted citations.","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"76 4","pages":"827-858"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50125507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Learning from corporate governance: First conceptualization of a liability for political decision-making 从公司治理中学习：政治决策责任的首次概念化

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-07-27 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12351

Florian Follert

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Is there a happy culture? Multiple paths to national subjective well-being 有快乐的文化吗？实现国民主观幸福的多种途径

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12343

Maria C. Pereira, Filipe Coelho, Graça Miranda Silva

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Do 2 weeks of instruction time matter? Using a natural experiment to estimate the effect of a calendar change on students' performance Do 2 几周的教学时间很重要？使用自然实验来评估日历变化对学生表现的影响

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12350

Ismael Sanz, J. D. Tena

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Export intensity and its effect on women's employment 出口强度及其对妇女就业的影响

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12346

Mohammad Amin, Asif M. Islam

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Between fearmongers and Samaritans: Does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany? 在恐惧贩子和撒玛利亚人之间：信息的提供是否会影响德国对庇护权的态度？

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12349

Bernd Hayo, Florian Neumeier

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Comrades in the family? Soviet communism and demand for family insurance 家里的同志们？苏联共产主义与家庭保险需求

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12342

Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicińska

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Military managers and earnings management 军事管理人员和盈余管理

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12348

Li Lai, Zhi Wang, Hanyi Tian, Frank Yu

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A market for citizenships: Should citizenship be commodified? 公民身份市场：公民身份是否应该商品化？

IF 1.9 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12347

Ingemar Bengtsson

{"title":"A market for citizenships: Should citizenship be commodified?","authors":"Ingemar Bengtsson","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12347","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from the assumption that citizenship is property that would be more valuable if it were transferable, the paper explores the idea of commodification of citizenship. The paper provides arguments in favor of commodification and recommendations to how the market for citizenships should be designed. A market for citizenships could result in an improved matching between employer and employee when citizens swap citizenship with each other. Successful States could issue new citizenships and thus make it possible for a greater share of the world population to live and work within the countries with the best institutions. The combined effect would be a higher global productivity. Additionally, market prices on citizenships would provide information on institutional quality and thus provide politicians with information on voters' preferences as well as voters with information on the quality of the work of the government. The market value of a tradable citizenship is also found to be a candidate as tax base for a redistributive tax on a global level that could address some of the inherent inequality with birthright citizenships. Those potential benefits aside, several problems with a market for citizenship are also found and discussed, among those the age-dependent value of citizenships.","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"76 4","pages":"705-723"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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