The Production of Knowledge

Equal but Inequitable: Who Benefits from Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies?

“…Information about every person's academic job history and publication record was taken from their most recent curriculum vitae (CV), or found via Internet search. 12 We also collected information on the person's gender, PhD, and the year and institution at which they first received tenure. Our main sample includes 1,392 individuals who started their first job as an assistant professor at a top-50 economics department within two years of receiving their PhD, and who published at least two journal articles within eight years of their PhD.…”

“…Records were often obtained from archived copies of university bylaws or statutes, human resource departments, or faculty affairs documents. 12 We located CVs that report academic job histories and publications for more than 93 percent of the assistant professors in our sample. For the remainder, we found the relevant job history information via professional or personal websites, university records, and other publications.…”

Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research

“…The largest clinical trial registry is clinicaltrials.gov, which helped to inspire the most high-profile study registry within economics, the AEA RCT Registry (Katz et al 2013), which was launched in May 2013. 28 While recent research in medicine finds that the clinical trial registry has not eliminated all underreporting of null results or other forms of publication bias and specification searching (Laine et al 2007;Mathieu et al 2009), they do allow the research community to quantify the extent of these problems and, over time, may help to constrain inappropriate practices. It also helps scholars locate studies that are delayed in publication or are never published, helping to fill in gaps in the literature and thus resolving some of the problems identified in Franco, Malhotra, and Simonovits (2014).…”