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Which Countries are Studied Most by Economists? An Examination of the Regional Distribution of Economic Research

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  • Michael D. Robinson
  • James E. Hartley
  • Patricia Higino Schneider

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This paper examines the distribution of economic research as catalogued in the Journal of Economic Literature across countries of the world and attempts to explain those patterns. We report the number of articles published on each country and estimate a series of regressions to understand this pattern. We find that measures of a country's size (physical and economic), connections with the outside world and data availability explain much of the pattern of research. We also find that tourism receipts, whether English is an official language, and the number of economic research institutions are significantly correlated with the amount of research done on a country. After controlling for all the variables, we find only three regions (all in Africa) with significantly less research published by economists in Journal of Economic Literature cataloged articles than North America.

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  • Michael D. Robinson & James E. Hartley & Patricia Higino Schneider, 2006. "Which Countries are Studied Most by Economists? An Examination of the Regional Distribution of Economic Research," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(4), pages 611-626, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:kyklos:v:59:y:2006:i:4:p:611-626
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2006.00352.x
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    1. Lucas Ronconi & Ana Lúcia Kassouf, 2023. "Demand-Side Obstacles to Publishing Economics Research: A View from the South," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 23(1), pages 99-105, January.
    2. Tilman Brück & Mekdim D. Regassa, 2023. "Usefulness and misrepresentation of phone surveys on COVID-19 and food security in Africa," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 15(2), pages 423-453, April.
    3. Obie Porteous, 2022. "Research Deserts and Oases: Evidence from 27 Thousand Economics Journal Articles on Africa," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 84(6), pages 1235-1258, December.

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