Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 28, 2022 [3/4]
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This is part three of four.
Paper summaries
How much does author prominence affect peer review?
🔹If referees can see that a paper is coauthored by a Nobel laureate, close to 80% recommend R&R or Accept
🔹The same paper is rejected by 65% if only the lesser known author is shown
static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/sowi… by @spalan et al.
Since peer reviews are anonymous, why does this happen?
1. Concern about looking bad to the editor
2. Concern that the famous person will find out?
3. An inability to actually judge quality
4. A lack of effort to actually judge quality
I think 3 and 4 explain a lot.
Robert Dur @DurRobert
^refereeing is hard and costly. Relatedly: “quite an audit experiment: both in terms of the results and in relation to the hundreds of hours of reviewer time this probably took to complete”
Sex, Drugs, and R&D: Missing Innovation from Regulating Female Enrollment in Clinical Trials, presented by @v_michelman at @WeimEcon
But first, let’s just admire this raw data plot comparing shares of patents based on whether the drug was male- or female- focused:
I show that when a parent enrolls in a certain field, it causes their future children to be on average twice as likely (4.7p.p.) to earn a degree from that field.
(2/13)
The causal effects are large (but often a lot smaller than the correlations). Parental enrollment in a specific field increases the aggregate likelihood that their child will earn a degree in the same field from 4.83% to 9.53%. The effect varies a lot across fields.
(7/13)
High-wage Black women do NOT have child penalty on employment. They return to labour market immediately after giving birth. Super excited to present my paper at @EEANews #EEAESEM22
today my new article is out in @PLOSONE! this one explores long term availability of data described in Data Availability Statements. I found what I considered some pretty encouraging results 1/
Interesting discussions
I was asked to talk on "Working in a Male Dominated Profession" at the #EEAESEM22 women in economics retreat yesterday
In case they are useful for others, a thread on my advice 🧵👇
EEA @EEANews
BRYAN: people want to work, but only if they get paid enough. Firms want to hire workers, but only if they're not too expensive. The market wage is the wage at which the # of workers that firms want to hire and the # of workers who want to work is the same.
^quasi-Socratic dialogue (««underrated) on minimum wage; Tyler Cowen responds; Abaluck replies in turn
@arpitrage In so many university buildings, the faculty offices are empty such a large fraction of the time
^discuss?
