Tuesday, October 2, 2018

How Much Does Publishing in Top Journals Boost Tenure Prospects? In Economics, a Lot

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Audrey Williams June
October 1, 2018

For academics on the tenure track, the pressure to publish at all costs and in the top journals in their field is immense. That’s because meeting that professional standard matters — a lot.
How much does it matter for academic economists? A new working paper by James J. Heckman, a Nobel laureate and economist, and Sidharth Moktan, a predoctoral fellow, provides a look. Both are at the University of Chicago.
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