Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 28, 2022 [3/4]
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Paper summaries
Robert Dur@DurRobert
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.
4:40 AM · Aug 23, 2022
495 Reposts · 1.43K Likes
Daniel Millimet 🇺🇦@dlmillimet
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
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
https://t.co/JZcw6hk9Td by @SPalan et al. https://t.co/7t9Tq598Zl
10:35 AM · Aug 23, 2022
4 Reposts · 70 Likes
^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”
Nicole Holz@NicoleOzm
Sex, Drugs, and R&D: Missing Innovation from Regulating Female Enrollment in Clinical Trials, presented by @v_michelman at @WeimEcon
10:45 PM · Aug 26, 2022
7 Reposts · 32 Likes
Nicole Holz@NicoleOzm
But first, let’s just admire this raw data plot comparing shares of patents based on whether the drug was male- or female- focused:
10:45 PM · Aug 26, 2022
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Adam Altmejd@adamaltmejd
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)
2:11 PM · Aug 23, 2022
1 Repost · 16 Likes
Adam Altmejd@adamaltmejd
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)
2:12 PM · Aug 23, 2022
10 Reposts · 29 Likes
Jiaqi Li@JiaqiLi_Yes
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
11:07 PM · Aug 24, 2022
95 Reposts · 533 Likes
Lisa Federer, PhD@lisafederer
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/
journals.plos.org
Long-term availability of data associated with articles in PLOS ONE
8:53 PM · Aug 24, 2022
74 Reposts · 220 Likes
Interesting discussions
Abi Adams-Prassl@abicadams
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
#EEAESEM22 #womenineconomics 10 years of the EEA & ES Wine Retreat! A great return to an in person event. https://t.co/ZOLyGcWtMn
6:05 AM · Aug 22, 2022
36 Reposts · 136 Likes
Jason Abaluck@Jabaluck
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.
6:43 PM · Aug 22, 2022
1 Repost · 145 Likes
^quasi-Socratic dialogue (««underrated) on minimum wage; Tyler Cowen responds; Abaluck replies in turn
Dean Eckles@deaneckles
@arpitrage In so many university buildings, the faculty offices are empty such a large fraction of the time
6:00 PM · Aug 24, 2022
1 Like
^discuss?
Avinash (Avi) Collis@avi_collis
@deaneckles @arpitrage esp senior faculty! Junior faculty show up often but have worse offices 🤷♂️
6:23 PM · Aug 24, 2022
2 Likes
Dan Stein@DanStein_econ
Editors and reviewers of #econtwitter , please help. Finishing a paper (1 equation), written in Google Docs. One of my lovely co-authors insists we convert to Latex as "it has payoffs with editors' first perception of quality". I think this is preposterous. Thoughts? @lukusem
3:49 PM · Aug 25, 2022
9 Reposts · 52 Likes
John Horton 🇺🇦@johnjhorton
@emmavaninwegen @deaneckles
4:18 PM · Aug 23, 2022
2 Reposts · 17 Likes