Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Daniel Hamermesh

No 8828, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older scholars show greater variation in their research styles than younger ones, who use similar numbers of co-authors in each published paper; but there are no differences across cohorts in scholars' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of coauthors, but substantial differences on choice of coauthors.

Keywords: rewards in economics; bibliometrics; sociology of economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 B31 J01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2015-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem, nep-lab and nep-sog
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Published - published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93

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