About every second paper in JPE/QJE is about Norwegian data. What do we learn from this? Is the purpose of economics as a field to make policy recommendations valid exclusively in Norway?
How long will the Norwegian Data scam go on?
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About every second paper in JPE/QJE is about Norwegian data. What do we learn from this? Is the purpose of economics as a field to make policy recommendations valid exclusively in Norway?
How about US data scam? Why is it ok to publish with US data but not Norwegian (which are of higher quality?)
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About every second paper in JPE/QJE is about Norwegian data. What do we learn from this? Is the purpose of economics as a field to make policy recommendations valid exclusively in Norway?
How about US data scam? Why is it ok to publish with US data but not Norwegian (which are of higher quality?)
You're not answering my question. Given that Norway is about as idiosyncratic a country as it gets (oil, geography, etc...), and that I personally don't care much about Norway, what am I learning from this work that is useful to me?
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Funny. When I ask people working with Norwegian or Swedish data how they review papers from researchers that have no access to such data, they all claim that all they care is causality. And, of course, unless you have the administrative data of Scandi quality, you cannot prove causality 99% of the times.
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I think it will be beneficial in the long run as long as all countries start producing high quality data.
Too bad that at that point no one will care, since that would mean replicating the methodology for the n-th country, and we all know that no one will get top pubs out of it. So high quality data will serve no purpose.
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Funny. When I ask people working with Norwegian or Swedish data how they review papers from researchers that have no access to such data, they all claim that all they care is causality. And, of course, unless you have the administrative data of Scandi quality, you cannot prove causality 99% of the times.
To clarify, you can never "prove" causality.
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Just checked out Bertil's CV.
He also published a bunch of papers in Management Science while AE there.
This reeks.
He studies ethics, btw.
Bertil became AE there.
He has like 50 forthcoming JPE papers. All using the same bullsh!t experiment, or some other NOR data crap. -
Just checked out Bertil's CV.
He also published a bunch of papers in Management Science while AE there.
This reeks.
He studies ethics, btw.Bertil became AE there.
He has like 50 forthcoming JPE papers. All using the same bullsh!t experiment, or some other NOR data crap.
If you have him as a reference I'm sure you'll get lots of offers (even if your JMP is bs)
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Wow, seriously, look at Bertil's CV. it is a scandal.
Since his PhD in 1995, he published mainly philosophy and papers in things like Social Choice & Welfare. Until the early 2010s, he published a handful of papers in top fields or better. Then he becomes editor of MS, and has 5 papers in that journal (including a current R&R). Then he becomes editor of JPE, and has 4 papers R&R at that journal. This is insane - and look at the papers, it is not like there is any real qualitative difference from the early work. "Exercise Improves Academic Performance" - an RCT on exercise and academic achievement? In the JPE? Come on now.
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Precisely.
Wow, seriously, look at Bertil's CV. it is a scandal.
Since his PhD in 1995, he published mainly philosophy and papers in things like Social Choice & Welfare. Until the early 2010s, he published a handful of papers in top fields or better. Then he becomes editor of MS, and has 5 papers in that journal (including a current R&R). Then he becomes editor of JPE, and has 4 papers R&R at that journal. This is insane - and look at the papers, it is not like there is any real qualitative difference from the early work. "Exercise Improves Academic Performance" - an RCT on exercise and academic achievement? In the JPE? Come on now.