Economist on "Journal question"
JMP was rejected at top 5 because "not general enough". where should i send it next? reduced form "applied micro" paper with relevance to IO, development and productivity.How would you rank AEJ: micro,...
View ArticleEconomist on "75% of academic finance is not based on fundamental quality"
I have been in seminars where people judge the paper on things like -a. The presenter's body language (does he/she seem to be confident) b. The presenter's affiliation c. Whether some audience member...
View ArticleEconomist on "A New Way to Rank Journals"
Instead of the traditional characterization (top 5, top field, etc.), why not use natural cutoff points? Consider the IDEAS 10-Yr recursive discounted rankings (excluding survey journals and moving AER...
View ArticleEconomist on "Applied Economics vs Applied Economics Letters?"
3 tier or lower? Many people can get tenured at some top Chinese university with a couple of publications like this. Ridiculous!
View ArticleEconomist on "Corrupt Editors/Co-editors/Associate Editors"
Let's have a list of corrupt editors, co-editors, and associate editors who have handled the papers of their coauthors, advisees, or colleagues. If these people are commonly known in the profession,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Suggestion: top-5 journals only to publish universally...
As in: - fundamental theory that can be used in any applied situation - field/lab data about universal laws of behavior - regmonkey studies that do not look at some niche crap like teenage pregnancy...
View ArticleEconomist on "Need to thank someone when submitting?"
Do these people in the acknowledgement matter?Positive or negative effect?Serious answers, please.
View ArticleEconomist on "Public Finance Review"
An excellent field journal. Close in quality to Journal of Public Economics but without its "contacts and connections".But more importantly, a proof that there is something wrong in the profession....
View ArticleEconomist on "In Rare Move, Authors Concede That They Made A Coding Error"
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.102.5.1927"Using an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our...
View ArticleEconomist on "JAERE/JEEM comparison"
The new issue of JAERE is out. It seems that theorists have dominated the first three issues. Although many of these papers are written by big names, I doubt whether they will be widely read and cited....
View ArticleEconomist on "J. of Ec. History: gold stock in 1914 has positive causal...
Buenos días, BIECHEST! Soy yo, señor FICKERS. Usted fracasó en el mercado de trabajo normal y ahora fallará el Scramble! Voy a FIECK hasta sangrar y su ano es como huevos revueltos. Fracasarás el...
View ArticleEconomist on "Joel Waldfogel and the airline industry"
How can editors accept to publish such weakly identified research that makes ridiculous claims accusing people of being anti semite for not having kosher food as an option!? Moreover, this research has...
View ArticleEconomist on "Are Chinese factories really killing marriage in America? |...
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2017/03/10/are-chinese-factories-really-killing-marriage-in-america/"A trio of economists, David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson, have produced...
View ArticleEconomist on "A New Way to Rank Journals"
Instead of the traditional characterization (top 5, top field, etc.), why not use natural cutoff points? Consider the IDEAS 10-Yr recursive discounted rankings (excluding survey journals and moving AER...
View ArticleEconomist on "Can you use a time-invariant instrument in an IV-Fixed Effects...
LRM here. Advisor does not know.
View ArticleEconomist on "The Citation Cartel"
It's not just our profession, peeps.https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/03/09/citation-cartel-or-editor-gone-rogue/
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