Economic Research Evolves: Fields and Styles

We examine the evolution of economics research using a machine-learning-based classification of publications into fields and styles. The changing field distribution of publications would not seem to favor empirical papers. But economics' empirical shift is a within-field phenomenon; even fields...

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Main Authors: Lu, Susan Feng (Author), Angrist, Joshua (Contributor), Azoulay, Pierre (Contributor), Ellison, Glenn David (Contributor), Hill, Ryan Reed (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2018-02-15T14:17:13Z.
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