I have 26 pages and I am doing good in Job Market.
I doubt it
Does the number of pages matter for the JMP?
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Let us only consider only top 20 unis. Around 15 students become JMCs each year on average per institute. Each of them has a JMP on average of around 50 pages. That is 1500 pages of economic thought each year. Do we all seriously believe that all of this is novel and true? Or is a lot of it mere padding around painfully trivial ideas?
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Hwang has 144 pages and invited to minnesota and ucla.
Anthony Lee Zhang is even more ridiculous and has northwestern and Booth
I disagree on this, his jmp is actually impressive. the main text is easy to understand, if you want fluffs refer to his appendix and online appendix. jeez, I think he has in total 200 for his jmp. my entire thesis is 200 page ...
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This question reflects the level of corruption in academic economics. The only thing that should matter is the contribution of the paper, not the number of pages it took to write that contribution. In fact, consistency should be rewarded, not penalized. Until we internalize this, economics will not be a science. Look at Science Mag and Nature for instance. It is quite weird to see a paper being written in more than 5 pages, and they are papers that contribute to important and complex matters, like curing cancer or understanding climate change.
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Short JMP here (28 pages). Wrote it in a publishable format so skipped all unnecessary steps and fluff/extensive lit review. It did not prevent me from getting lots of ASSA interviews as the idea is interesting and my abstract pretty compelling. However, I do think it hurt me to convert as folks read JMPs before the interviews and assume that your technical skills are limited if you don't have 20+ tables or robustness checks etc. I would say have a JMP between 45-55 pages.
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Hwang has 144 pages and invited to minnesota and ucla.
Anthony Lee Zhang is even more ridiculous and has northwestern and Booth
I disagree on this, his jmp is actually impressive. the main text is easy to understand, if you want fluffs refer to his appendix and online appendix. jeez, I think he has in total 200 for his jmp. my entire thesis is 200 page ...
his jpm really sucks. what he described as a derivative market is indeed a spot market, just a matter of change of variable.
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Hwang has 144 pages and invited to minnesota and ucla.
Anthony Lee Zhang is even more ridiculous and has northwestern and Booth
I disagree on this, his jmp is actually impressive. the main text is easy to understand, if you want fluffs refer to his appendix and online appendix. jeez, I think he has in total 200 for his jmp. my entire thesis is 200 page ...
his jpm really sucks. what he described as a derivative market is indeed a spot market, just a matter of change of variable.
wow. yes, i agree. why didn't he at least look at forward contracts or futures? should be easy enough.
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I had a sixteen page paper, thirty-two with appendix. I had four offers. Someone in my department had an over 150+ structural paper and had to go the scramble. You never know. Length really doesn't matter, what matters is the quality of the research you are producing and where your line of research is going in the future.