English

Comments are welcome

General Economics 2020-02-17 v2 Economics

Abstract

Scholars present their new research at seminars and conferences, and send drafts to peers, hoping to receive comments and suggestions that will improve the quality of their work. Using a dataset of papers published in economics journals, this article measures how much peers' individual and collective comments improve the quality of research. Controlling for the quality of the research idea and author, I find that a one standard deviation increase in the number of peers' individual and collective comments increases the quality of the journal in which the research is published by 47%.

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@article{arxiv.2001.08376,
  title  = {Comments are welcome},
  author = {Asier Minondo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08376},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 2 figures, 7 tables

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