Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265080 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Applied Econometrics [ISSN:] 1099-1255 [Volume:] 37 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Hoboken, NJ [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 820-828
Publisher: 
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
Abstract: 
I undertake a narrow, wide, and long replication of Goyal, van der Leij and Moraga‐Gonzélez (2006, https://doi.org/10.1086/500990). Using social network analysis, they show that the Economics profession gradually evolved into a small world. Small worlds (or small world networks) have unique information transmission capabilities. The trend is explained by the emergence of frequently publishing researchers with many distinct co‐authors. In a social network, they resemble stars. The original results are robust to the usage of (I) another software, (II) a recent version of the originally used data, and (III) another database and a more sophisticated author disambiguation.
Subjects: 
economics
social network
small world
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Article
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Published Version

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