What Do We Say about Ourselves and What Does It Mean? Yet Another Look at Economics Department Research
利用统计和编程技术，基于1993年国家研究委员会调查数据，分析经济学系质量排名与资源、研究产出的关系，发现资源决定产出、产出决定评价，且多数院系资源利用高效。
Statistical and programming techniques are used to examine economics department quality rankings and how resources and research output are related. Four questions are asked using the National Research Council's 1993 survey. Are there significant differences in department quality scores? How are quality scores related to publications, citations and numbers of Ph.D.s produced? What is the relation between research output and department resources? How well do departments generate research in comparison with other departments with similar levels of resources? What I find is that resources determine outputs, outputs determine opinions (which are generally diffuse) and most departments efficiently use their resources.