https://michaelwiebe.com/blog/
February 25, 2021"This seems like a serious problem for the riot results. The paper isn’t estimating the effect of riots on patenting; instead, it’s doing the effect of five specific riots. If we could collect data on the remaining 30 riots, I’d expect the estimate to change. In other words, why should we expect this result to be externally valid for other historical riots?"
This feels like a smoking gun.
Given that her supposedly best peer-reviewed publication is mediocre like this, I must say most econ journals (except JEG, of course) have done an excellent gatekeeping job.