TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kim,E. Han
AU  - Morse,Adair
AU  - Zingales,Luigi
TI  - What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12526
PY  - 2006
Y2  - September 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12526
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12526.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
E. Han Kim
University of Michigan
E-Mail: ehkim@umich.edu

Adair Morse
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/834-1615
E-Mail: amorse@chicagobooth.edu

Luigi Zingales
Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-3196
Fax: 773/834-2081
E-Mail: luigi.zingales@ChicagoBooth.edu
AB  - We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro and macro give way to growth and development in the 1990s. While we do not witness any decline in the primacy of production in the United States over the period, the concentration of institutions within the U.S. hosting and training authors of the highly-cited articles has declined substantially.
ER  -