In this paper, we focus on the effects of surname initials on professional outcomes in the academic labor market for economists. We begin our analysis with data on faculty in all top 35 U.S. economics departments. Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top ten economics departments, are significantly more likely to become fellows of the Econometric Society, and, to a lesser extent, are more likely to receive the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize. These statistically significant differences remain the same even after we control for country of origin, ethnicity, religion or departmental fixed effects. As a test, we replicate our analysis for faculty in the top 35 U.S. psychology departments, for which coauthorships are not normatively ordered alphabetically. We find no relationship between alphabetical placement and tenure status in psychology. We suspect the "alphabetical discrimination" reported in this paper is linked to the norm in the economics profession prescribing alphabetical ordering of credits on coauthored publications. We also investigate the extent to which the effects of alphabetical placement are internalized by potential authors in their choices to work with different numbers of coauthors as well as in their willingness to follow the alphabetical ordering norm.Maybe Einav will win a Nobel Prize for this.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Stop Alphabetical Discrimination!
One of the top journals in my discipline, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, recently published research by economists Liran Einav (Stanford) and Leeat Yariv (CalTech) claiming that alphabetical discrimination occurs in our profession.
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Don't be hatin. F is pretty close to the top of the alphabet.
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In engineering, the custom is to list authors in order according to their contribution. Imagine my shock on learing that a colleague had been duped by one of his co-authors, whose surname is near the top of the alphabet, into always litsing co-authors alphabetically. Because they are frequent collaboarators, my colleague's publication list looks far less impressive that it would otherwise be. As a result, his evaluations (which affect raises and tenure decisions) are not as good as they would have been had he had the good sense to be named Aadams.
This practice deserves to be discredited.
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