1043 Economics Journals to Choose From
Product differentiation and variety is a hallmark of modern capitalism. In academic economics, did you know that we have 1043 journals to choose from? Here is the rankings list. I haven't heard of 964 of these journals but still I celebrate our degree of choice. I wanted to see a list of all the journals because my wife and I have a funky new paper. It is a major revision of an old paper that was rejected on a second round at a very good journal because I made some mistakes in how I wrote the paper. I've learned my lesson and I've streamlined the paper down to just a couple of tables.
The paper uses unique micro data to document that political liberal home owners consume less electricity than observationally identical political conservatives. This liberal/conservative differential is the largest during the summer months. We document that this liberal/conservative differential shrinks when we control for the home owner's size of home, whether the home owner has a pool, the number of people in the household. Liberals and conservatives live their lives in different ways. Note that this isn't flashy Prius ownership. In this case, it is consumption of a privately observable commodity for which your neighbors do not observe.
The paper uses unique micro data to document that political liberal home owners consume less electricity than observationally identical political conservatives. This liberal/conservative differential is the largest during the summer months. We document that this liberal/conservative differential shrinks when we control for the home owner's size of home, whether the home owner has a pool, the number of people in the household. Liberals and conservatives live their lives in different ways. Note that this isn't flashy Prius ownership. In this case, it is consumption of a privately observable commodity for which your neighbors do not observe.


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