Sandra Black new editor of The Journal of Human Resources

Sandra Black, Professor of Economics, Audre and Bernard Rapaport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs and PRC Faculty Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named editor of The Journal of Human Resources, where she has served as co-editor since 2005.

JHR is a top-ranked journal in the fields of Economics (34th of 304 journals) and Industrial Relations & Labor (2nd of 22 journals).

Land Economics Editor wins Reimer Lüst Award

Professor and editor of Land Economics, Daniel W. Bromley has received the Reimer Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange. The award is given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to recognize outstanding humanities scholars and social scientists who have promoted bilateral relations between Germany and their own countries.

Bromley, an emeritus professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found out about the award, fittingly, in November while teaching at Humboldt University of Berlin.

“I was really stunned,” Bromley says.

Award winners are invited to spend up to a year in Germany and given 50,000 Euros ($74,000) to help with expenses. They also have the opportunity to conduct research projects of their choosing with specialist colleagues in Germany. The award will be given at a June ceremony hosted by the president of Germany. Only two awards are given annually.

See full details here http://www.news.wisc.edu/20382.

The Journals of Human Resources wins Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Awards for 2011

The Journal of Human Resources article, "Teachers and the gender gaps in student achievement" by Thomas S. Dee (The Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2007, vol. XLII no. 3, p. 528-554, doi: 10.3368/jhr.XLII.3.528, http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLII/3/528.abstract) has won one of the prestigious Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Awards for 2011. It has been chosen as one of the top 50 articles with proven impact since its publication date (2007 in this case, to allow for citation impact to be accurately measured) from the top 300 management journals in the world.

Emerald Management Reviews is an abstracting and indexing database that covers every article in the top 300 business, management and economics journals worldwide including titles such as: Harvard Business Review; Journal of Finance; Journal of Marketing; Strategic Management Journal; MIT Sloan Management Review; Long Range Planning; Academy of Management Journal; and MIS Quarterly. 15,000 article abstracts are added to the database annually and so receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement.