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"Do economists care more about the average signal than total productivity in academic publications? A randomized survey experiment" Nick Powdthavee (WBS Behavioural Science Group)

It is well-known that a person’s publications are very important for judgments made in hiring, tenure, and promotions of academics. Yet, there seems to be little research on what characteristics of such lists economists consider in making these judgments. In the current study, we conduct a survey experiment on faculty members of economics departments from 44 universities around the World. By randomly assigning people to rate different hypothetical CVs, we find that economists tend to rate shorter CVs higher than longer CVs in single evaluation, even though longer CVs have everything that the shorter CVs have. However, the differences in the ratings disappear when they are asked to rate the short and long CVs together in a joint evaluation.