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How Do Journal Quality, Co‐Authorship, and Author Order Affect Agricultural Economists' Salaries?
Author(s) -
Hilmer Christiana E.,
Hilmer Michael J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2005.00738.x
Subject(s) - earnings , affect (linguistics) , order (exchange) , wage , quality (philosophy) , agriculture , economics , set (abstract data type) , accounting , labour economics , agricultural economics , demographic economics , sociology , finance , geography , computer science , philosophy , communication , epistemology , archaeology , programming language
Utilizing an original data set containing annual salaries and peer‐reviewed publication histories for 326 faculty members from top‐ranked Ph.D.‐granting programs, we examine the labor market for academic agricultural economists. The results suggest that higher quality publications have a greater impact on annual earnings, that sole authored articles have a higher return than multi‐authored articles, and that no wage premium exists for being the lead author of a non‐alphabetic article.