{"id":10651,"date":"2017-10-30T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:07:48","slug":"your-name-determines-your-research-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2017\/10\/your-name-determines-your-research-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Your last name determines your research success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s in a name? <a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~leinav\/pubs\/JEP2006.pdf\">Liran Einav and Leeat Yariv 2006<\/a> write<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somebody should have told me that earlier!<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 16.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s in a name? Liran Einav and Leeat Yariv 2006 write 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2017\/10\/your-name-determines-your-research-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your last name determines your research success<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10654,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}