Which Countries are Studied Most by Economists? An Examination of the Regional Distribution of Economic Research
考察了《经济文献杂志》收录的经济研究在全球各国的分布，发现国家规模、对外联系和数据可得性解释了大部分研究模式，并指出非洲三个地区的研究显著偏少。
SUMMARY 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.