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We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial … publication bias in peer review. Desk-rejected manuscripts display greater heaping than those sent for review i.e. marginally …
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Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have the potential to revolutionize research in economics and other disciplines. I describe 25 use cases along six domains in which LLMs are starting to become useful as both research assistants and tutors: ideation, writing, background research, data...
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The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, and how stylistic differences and age affect impact. As top-level...
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Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and...
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demonstrates that publications likely suffer from non-classical measurement error. Using horse race and instrumental variable … models, we confirm that the Gold Standard data are relatively free from measurement error but show that the Clarivate data … suffer from non-classical measurement error. We employ a variety of methods to adjust the Clarivate data for false negatives …
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This study uses data from Academic Analytics to examine gender differences in promotion to associate professor in economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant...
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Publishing takes a long time in economics. Consequently, many authors release "working" versions of their papers. Using data on the NBER working paper series, we show that the dissemination of economics research suffers from an overcrowding problem: An increase in the number of weekly released...
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This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...
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lessons for both inflation measurement and some fundamental research questions in macro and international economics. In … particular, we show how online prices can be used to construct daily price indexes in multiple countries and to avoid measurement …
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Econometric software packages typically report a fixed number of decimal digits for coefficient estimates and their associated standard errors. This practice misses the opportunity to use rounding rules that convey statistical precision. Using insights from the testing statistical hypotheses of...
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