Olivier Simard-Casanova
Where to find, and to publish, short economics papers?
Economics papers tend to be long. Too long, if you are asking me.
If you are interested in publishing a short economics paper, or if you are interested in finding short economics papers, David Evans has compiled a comprehensive list of journals that accept short economics papers. A very useful
The slow approval of interracial marriages in the United States
Via Paul Krugman on Threads, I discover this plot.
Based on a series of Gallup polls, the plot shows the proportion of adults who say they “approve” interracial marriages between Black people and White people in the United States.
In 1958, only 4% of the population approved of interracial marriages.
A surprising result on the differences in competitive behavior between women and men
A vast literature in economics shows that men are on average more competitive than women. The dominant explanation for this difference is a tendency for men to be overconfident in their abilities.
A working paper by Tünde Lénárd, Dániel Horn and Hubert János Kiss challenges this explanation.
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