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Nine Facts About Top Journals in Economics
Card, David - 2014
How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all articles published in the top-5 journals from 1970 to 2012 with their Google Scholar citations, we identify nine key trends. First, annual submissions to the top-5 journals nearly...
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Revealed Preferences for Journals : Evidence from Page Limits
Card, David - 2014
Academic journals set a variety of policies that affect the supply of new manuscripts. We study the impact of page limit policies adopted by the American Economic Review (AER) in 2008 and the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) in 2009 in response to a substantial increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064825
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What Do Editors Maximize? Evidence from Four Leading Economics Journals
Card, David - 2017
We study editorial decision-making using anonymized submission data for four leading economics journals: the Journal of the European Economics Association, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. We match papers to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960157
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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?
Card, David - 2019
We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of female- versus male-authored papers, suggesting that any differential biases of male referees are negligible. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868347
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Regression Discontinuity Designs : A Guide to Practice
Imbens, Guido W.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021
In Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for evaluating causal effects of interventions, assignment to a treatment is determined at least partly by the value of an observed covariate lying on either side of a fixed threshold. These designs were first introduced in the evaluation literature by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225053
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Regression Discontinuity Designs : A Guide to Practice
Imbens, Guido W. - 2012
In Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for evaluating causal effects of interventions, assignment to a treatment is determined at least partly by the value of an observed covariate lying on either side of a fixed threshold. These designs were first introduced in the evaluation literature by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110538
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
advanced management practices. Many of these practices – including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives – are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing firms with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996465