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RePEc, a Tool and Open Dataset for and about Economists
Abstract: RePEc is an initiative created by economists for economists in 1997. It functions primarily as a bibliographic tool, but it also collects various linked metadata about economists, their institutions, and their impact. Thus, a labor economist may be interested in RePEc beyond literature searches and tracking—namely, as a dataset describing a profession, its members, and their output. This essay describes RePEc’s origins and history, the many facets of its data and how the data can be accessed. It also provides some examples of scholarly studies leveraging RePEc data that could be of interest to labor economists and lead them to other uses of RePEc data.
JEL Classification: A11; A14; J44; J45;
https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2026.018
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Part of Series: Working Papers
Publication Date: 2026-08-26
Number: 2026-018