TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Jelnov, Pavel
AU  - Weiss, Yoram
        TI  - Influence in Economics and Aging
        PY  - 2020/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12887
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12887
        AB  - We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from Ph.D. graduation. Additionally, we observe no robust difference in the effect of age and experience between Nobel laureates and leading non-Nobelists. Finally, we find that labor economists enjoy an especially steep improvement in the rankings before they reach the peak; however, the rankings also peak relatively early in their careers.
        KW  - Nobel
KW  - influence
KW  - citations
KW  - aging
KW  - research productivity
        ER  -