Economist on "We cannot reject simple randomness as the cause."
I've always hated this phrasing. Why do people use it?
View ArticleEconomist on "How do I justify the bounds for my equivalency test?"
The results I got just barely show equivalence, and I'm afraid the referee will think I chose the bounds after getting the results.
View ArticleEconomist on "Reject and Resubmit?"
Got an email from an editor rejecting my paper but encouraging me to follow the reviewers recommendations and to resubmit as a "new submission". One reviewer gave very helpful feedback of do able...
View ArticleEconomist on "It's rational for us editors to favor rejection of the null....
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
View ArticleEconomist on "Reject and resubmit after Revise and resubmit"
OK so I got a revise and resubmit a few months ago, and I pretty much did everything the referee asked. I resubmitted my paper a few months ago, and recently I got an email from the editor saying...
View ArticleEconomist on "Theory in Europe"
Who are the best European theorists? I am sure that many European bros knows the best theorists in their country. Please list the best in your country here!
View ArticleEconomist on "Replication data"
Providing replication materials is becoming a norm in most other fields, and yet we seem to be lagging behind in this respect. This post is prompted by my attempt to find replication data for Ferraz...
View ArticleEconomist on "What's behind the scene of this Economics of Education Review...
The paper that I am talking about is "High school grades, admissions policies, and the gender gap in college enrollment," which was published in 2015. I am surprised by the article's publication...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is Economics of Education Review a toilet journal?"
Will it help at all for an MRM?
View ArticleEconomist on "Referee pushing for his own paper"
I feel that the referee of a report is pushing hard for several published papers belonging to the same author, and not willing to recommend my manuscript. Can I let the editor know?
View ArticleEconomist on "Time to make JME great again"
Enough is enough. I have been waiting for 10 months now, half of them after the reviews have been completed. I know it's better than with other people, but it's still almost a year and who knows how...
View ArticleEconomist on "Citing personal communication?"
My question is addressed to experienced faculties: Is it allowed to cite a personal communication in econ journals? What are criteria, if any?For instance this paper cites a personal...
View ArticleEconomist on "You can take many IV studies and do something new with it."
In many cases, the second stage can serve as the first stage for a different study.
View ArticleEconomist on "LOL! He took Acemoglu's IV and used it to study institutions...
http://web.worldbank.org/archive/website01241/WEB/IMAGES/COLONIAL.PDF"While differences in per capita income have received considerable attention in the study of civil wars, institutional development...
View ArticleEconomist on "Poll: Should journals refuse papers using interactive software?"
An increasing number of journals insist on publishing the data used in empirical papers. Data are necessary for replication, but not sufficient: The exact commands for data cleaning and analysis are...
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