Published by Springer, Empirical Economics is an A-rated journal (Australian Business Deans Council) that focuses on high-quality papers that apply advanced econometric or statistical methods to confront economic theory with observed data. Exemplary topics appearing in the journal are treatment effect estimation, policy evaluation, forecasting, and econometric methods. This year the journal is celebrating its 50th anniversary. In commemoration of this milestone, its most recent issue leads with an expansive bibliometric analysis of the journal's first 50 years. This analysis recognizes top papers appearing in previous issues and scholars who have contributed to the journal's success. One of the diagrams in the article, Figure 9, presents a network that shows the bibliographic coupling of authors publishing in Empirical Economics, wherein the nodes are the top individual researchers and the edges are co-authorship or citation relationships between those researchers. The size of each node indicates the centrality measure for that author, with larger nodes indicating more citation activity. The color scale, from blue to red, corresponds to the temporal development of each author’s publication activity over time, where authors that are older (i.e. published in earlier decades) appear cooler (blue) and more recent contributors warmer (red). Included in the diagram, which is shown below, is Turner College economist Frank Mixon, who is directly connected to Auburn University's Steven Caudill and indirectly connected to Subal Kumbhakar of Binghamton University.
Mixon has published five times in Empirical Economics, dating back to his 1995 study with Caudill estimating and testing censored Poisson and negative binomial regression models of household fertility decisions, wherein the novel feature is that in each case the censoring threshold varies from individual to individual. This study has been cited almost 100 times since publication. Mixon and Caudill also published a 2018 study extending prior empirical research on issues associated with the common-pool resource represented by surf breaks by creating an alternative, perhaps more objective metric, based on a logistic transformation of pairwise comparisons of the results of big-wave surfing competitions, of surf break quality. In 2012, the University of Tennessee's Richard Cebula teamed with Mixon on an investigation of the impact of ending the military draft on voter turnout in the U.S. Butler Center Director Fady Mansour and Turner College Interim Dean Tesa Leonce teamed with Mixon on a 2021 piece appearing in Empirical Economics addressing who is likely to participate in a public revolt against an autocratic government in the context of the Arab Spring in Egypt. Lastly, Mixon's newest publication in Empirical Economics appears in a 2024 issue. That study, co-authored with Caudill, João Ricardo Faria of Florida Atlantic University, and Elliott Young of Smith & Nephew, examines how instances of prior property confiscation affect one's self-reported quality of life following political-economic transition in Russia during the early 1990s. Turner Business congratulates Mixon on this recognition.
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