RT Generic
T1 The evolution of the scientific productivity of highly productive economist
A1 Carrasco, Raquel
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB This paper studies the evolution of research productivity of a sample of economists working inthe best 81 departments in the world in 2007. The main novelty is that, in so far as a productivitydistribution can be identified with an income distribution, we measure productivity mobility in a dynamiccontext using an indicator inspired in an income mobility index suggested by Fields (2010) for a two-periodworld. Productivity is measured in terms of the number of publications in each of four classes, weightedaccording to a rather elitist scheme. We study the evolution of average productivity, productivity inequality,the extent of rank reversals, and productivity mobility for seven cohorts, as well as the population as awhole. We offer new evidence confirming previous results about the heterogeneity of the evolution ofproductivity for top and other researchers. However, the major result is that –contrary to what wasexpected– for our sample of very highly productive scholars the effect of rank reversals between the twoperiods on overall productivity mobility offsets the effect of an increase in productivity inequality from thefirst to the second period in the youngest five out of seven cohorts
SN 2340-5031
YR 2012
FD 2012-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/14527
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/14527
LA eng
NO This is the third version of a paper with the same title published in this series inJune 2012
NO Carrasco and Ruiz-Castillo acknowledge additional financial support from the Spanish MEC throughgrant No. ECO2009-11165, and SEJ2007-67436, respectively
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RD 2 jun. 2024