Influence in economics and aging

Pavel Jelnov; Yoram Weiss

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101992

Influence in economics and aging

Pavel Jelnov^*, Yoram Weiss

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School of Economics

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We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of leading economists. We consider, as a measure of influence, monthly RePEc rankings and address the dynamics of rankings within the top group as a function of age. We find that the rankings peak at age 60 or 30 years after Ph.D. graduation. Differently from other leaders, current and future Nobel laureates do not experience deterioration of the rankings if their works and citations are discounted by recursive impact factor, and their ranking with respect to the breadth of citations across fields improves at old age.

Original language	English
Article number	101992
Journal	Labour Economics
Volume	77
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101992
State	Published - Aug 2022

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Nobel
aging
citations
influence
research productivity

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