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Gender neutrality in economics: The role of editors and referees
Gender neutrality in economics: The role of editors and referees David Card, Stefano DellaVigna, Patricia Funk, Nagore Iriberri 08 January 2020 Women economists are under-represented across the discipline, from university departments to academic conferences and publishing houses. This column focuses on the editorial process and asks whether the referees and editors of four leading economics journals made gender-neutral publishing decisions between 2003 and 2013.
Predict science to improve science
Policy ForumSocial Science Stefano DellaVigna1, Devin Pope2, Eva Vivalt3 1Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. 2The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, USA. 3Research School of Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Email: eva.vivalt{at}anu.edu.au See allHide authors and affiliations Science 25 Oct 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6464, pp.
Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy
Article Information Comments () Abstract We analyze a novel lobbying channel: firms shifting spending toward a politician's business in the hope of securing favorable regulation. We examine the evolution of advertising spending in Italy during 1993-2009, a period in which Berlusconi was in power three separate times, while maintaining control of Italy's major private television network, Mediaset.
The motivations behind effort: Evidence and expert forecasts
Behavioural economics has made many gains in recent years, but much uncertainty persists about the effectiveness of different behavioural interventions. This column uses data from a large-scale experiment to find the relative effectiveness of multiple treatments within one setting, and to gauge the accuracy of academic experts’ forecasts of responses.
Economic and social impacts of the media
Economic and social impacts of the media Every day, we are all exposed to all sorts of emotive and exhilarating media entertainment. But what, if any, are the measurable impacts? Are newspapers and periodicals, for instance, more important than soap operas? This column introduces a survey of the wide-ranging literature from the Handbook of Media Economics, presenting a number of surprising findings.
Nine facts about top journals in economics
'Publish or perish' has been the rule in academic economics since forever, but there is a widespread perception that publishing in the best journals has become harder and much slower. This column presents new evidence confirming the perception. The number of articles published in top journals has fallen, while the number and length of submissions have risen. The profession should consider recalibrating publication demands to reflect this new reality.
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