My solution for how to stay up-to-date on researchAcademic Sequituris finally here! For those of you thinking “What the wha is that?”, Academic Sequitur is a website I’ve been working on for about
Should the same reviewer review the same paper at a different journal?Last week, I tweeted about a toolI use when I review papers I’ve reviewed before, especially at a different journal (basically, you can upload two
What you get when you take the advice “write down all your research ideas” very seriouslyDuring my recent travels, I cleaned 315 typed pages of research notes, which I’ve been accumulating since early grad school days. Some of them weren’t
My take on “Top5itis”I’ve recently had a number of conversations about the value and incentives of publishing in the top 5 economics journals. Why do people try so
Is it immoral to be rich?About once a month, I come across a Facebook post or online article that expresses a sentiment along the lines of “If you have more
Does X cause Y? (part four of many)To stick with the stereotype of economists being dismal, I’d like to keep discussing ways in which experimental evidence can be misleading. Again, use these
The art of researchI recently had two conversations with third-year PhD students about how to do research. Both of them started with the students asking me if I
Does X cause Y? (part three of many)Now that I’ve written about why randomized controlled experiments are so great, it’s time to talk about some of the common ways in which they