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Scholarship among Liberal Arts College Economists

Name: Scholarship among Liberal Arts College Economists
Published: 2021-12-21
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jenny Bourne, Carleton College; Nathan D Grawe, Carleton College; Michael Hemesath, Carleton College; Maya Jensen, Carleton College

Version: View help for Version V2

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Project Citation:

Bourne, Jenny, Grawe, Nathan D, Hemesath, Michael, and Jensen, Maya . Scholarship among Liberal Arts College Economists. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-05-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E157982V2

Project Description

Summary: The dataset reports publications by economics professors at institutions included by US News and World Report among "national liberal arts colleges" in summer 2020. To be included in the data, individuals must have earned a PhD between 1983 and 2012. Each observation is a faculty member-publication.

Publications were collected from ECONLIT for all members of the population. For approximately 3/4 of the population, we were also able to obtain a CV. For these faculty member, the dataset also reflects publications listed on a CV but not in ECONLIT.

Faculty member-level information: institutional ranking on the US News list (bracketed), year of faculty member's PhD completion (bracketed), whether the individual is a micro or macroeconomist, and whether the individual's thesis was a collection of essays.

Publication-level information: year of the publication, whether indexed in ECONLIT, number of authors, 10-year H index for the journal of publication (when available).

A detailed description of methodology can be found in:
Bourne, Jenny, Nathan D. Grawe, Michael Hemesath, and Maya Jensen. “Scholarly Activity among Economists at Liberal Arts Colleges: A Life Cycle Analysis.” Working Paper (December 2021). Carleton College. https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=econ_repec

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: scholarship; economics; liberal arts colleges

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1972 – 2019 (Publications through 2019)

Collection Date(s): 2020 – 2021

Universe: Professors of economics at "national liberal arts colleges" (as determined by US News and World Report)

Data Type(s): observational data

Collection Notes: Faculty members were identified through department webpages. Individuals with titles such as "lecturer" or "visiting professor" were included to excluded those not on the tenure track. Those with emeritus titles were also excluded.

CVs were largely collected from websites of home departments or other institutions of affiliation (eg, think tanks). We also emailed all faculty in the dataset to ask for updated CVs.

Information on doctorates was collected from American Economic Association serial publications of “Doctoral Dissertations in Economics” (or “Political Economy”).

The H index of journals reflect reports by IDEAS on April 9, 2021.

Methodology

Response Rate: ECONLIT covers the entire population.

We obtained CVs for 77% of faculty members in the database.

Data Source: ECONLIT and publicly available CVs

Unit(s) of Observation: faculty-publications

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V3 [2022-05-06]

V2 [2022-05-06]

V1 [2021-12-21]

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