Conference report: New economic ideas to give structure to a fracturing geopolitical world At the 3rd CEPR–Kiel Institute Conference on Geoeconomics in Berlin, Standard Error lead editor Samantha Eyler-Driscoll discovered prize-winning research on questions of world...
The colonial roots of inequality HowColombia’seducationsystemreproduceshistoricalsocialandethnicdivisionstoday Colonial institutions such as slavery and encomiendas were the cornerstones of the wealth of elites and ethnic segregation in former colonies such as...
Does professional editing lead to better academic papers? New research quantifies the value added of language editors The job of language editors is to make research manuscripts clearer, more concise, and easier to read. Do publishing gatekeepers notice the...
Podcast with Dr Abdullah Al-BahraniWhy do social scientists need editors? Standard Error founder Samantha Eyler-Driscoll sits down with Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani of “Econ with Dr. A” to discuss the company’s mission and how academic editors work to improve scientific...
return to blog Defund or Reform? New Work Looks at What Investors (and Economists) Expect for the Future of US Policing How do social uprisings against police brutality affect police vendors? The authors of a new NBER WP investigate and raise pointed questions for...
What the preprint revolution means for researchers in the Global South Has the advent of open science platforms remedied geographical bias in attention to new research? In a word: No. A new NBER working paper looks at the allocation of reader attention to new research...
