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2014/06/02

What Motivates Reviewers? An Experiment in Economics

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How can publishers speed up the reviewing process? In a recent paper, Raj Chetty, Harvard economist and editor of the Journal of Public Economics, decided to experiment on his own journal, testing whether shortened deadlines and cash incentives increased the speed and quality of peer reviews.