TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hamermesh,Daniel S.
AU  - Schmidt,Peter
TI  - "Hall of Fame" Voting: The Econometric Society
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8435
PY  - 2001
Y2  - August 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8435
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8435.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Department of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1173
Tel: 512/475-8526
Fax: 512/471-3510
E-Mail: hamermes@eco.utexas.edu

Peter Schmidt
E-Mail: Peter.Schmidt@hs-bremen.de
AB  - We examine the determinants of election as Fellow of the Econometric Society, an example of voting within a group to confer honor on some members and perhaps achieve additional status for the entire group.  Using data from annual elections from 1990-2000, we find that objective measures of quality help determine elections, as do attestations of quality by previous honorees.  What one might view as ascriptive characteristics, such as candidates' subspecialty or institutional affiliation/location, also affect their electoral success.
ER  -