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

About once a month, I come across a Facebook post or online article that expresses a sentiment along the lines of “If you have

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I recently had two conversations with third-year PhD students about how to do research. Both of them started with the students asking me if

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You just read a fascinating article suggesting that drinking a glass of red wine is equivalent to spending an hour at the gym, that

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