On the occasion of the International Women’s Days on 8 March 2022, we take the opportunity to present all that RePEc is doing to highlight the work of female economists. The first step is to id...
This blog post was written by Christian Düben. The economic literature is a field comprised of tens of thousands of authors. The American Economic Association alone has more than 20,000 members....
The number of authors registered with the RePEc Author Service has surpassed 60’000. We take this opportunity to take a look at some of the characteristics of this group. For starters, one has ...
https://blog.repec.org/2020/09/24/who-are-the-authors-registered-with-repec/
This is a guest post by Jan H. Höffler The ReplicationWiki currently offers a database of 4,484 studies from the social sciences for which empirical methods were used. It lists which of the stud...
RePEc now indexes now over 5000 working papers series, and we take this opportunity to highlight how these open-access pre-prints are central to RePEc and economics research in general. Indeed, t...
Beyond the open bibliography that lays the foundation of RePEc, various services have emerged that enhance the data collected with RePEc. One of them is the RePEc Genealogy. The goal of this init...
https://blog.repec.org/2018/04/22/help-build-the-academic-tree-of-economics-the-repec-genealogy/
Thanks to the ranking of female authors in RePEc, we have long known the share of women in the RePEc sample of more than 50K authors: 19%. We now know also the shares of women economists by count...
https://blog.repec.org/2017/11/21/female-representation-in-repec/
RePEc is all about the free dissemination of economic research, but for many economists it is most known for its rankings. While would really emphasize that the rankings are only a by-product and...
In a Project Syndicate column, Federico Fubini makes the argument that the intellectual leaders in economics from ten years ago are still the leaders of today, and this despite the fact that we h...
https://blog.repec.org/2016/01/08/the-closed-marketplace-of-economic-ideas-a-rebuttal/
A major part of the scientific process is the replication of previous studies, something necessary to confirm that things were done right, that they are not sensitive to details and that results ...
https://blog.repec.org/2014/07/16/economics-replication-wiki-now-on-ideas/