Thomas Hegland

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus.

As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

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Funny enough, this is what the event study plots look like for that paper (this outcome being ED visits) when you reproduce them using new staggered diff in diff robust methods, but the original replication data. This plot being generated by wooldid.