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A mini-research question, asked and answered, on Sat night:
Does the Feenstra et al. "it's good to be first" effect hold for the tweets about WP by @nberpubs ?
Answer: Yes, weekend papers get significantly more attention. 7.3 more likes (33% of weekday) and 3.9 more RTs (32%).
Does the Feenstra et al. "it's good to be first" effect hold for the tweets about WP by @nberpubs ?
Answer: Yes, weekend papers get significantly more attention. 7.3 more likes (33% of weekday) and 3.9 more RTs (32%).
Papers appear to be smoothly posted across days of the week -- there is no significant difference in the number of posts on the weekend vs. weekdays.
While there ARE differences across the days in when things are posted ...
this doesn't appear to be driving the difference in likes and retweets.
There's no identified whether something is a working paper or a call for papers, so there is definitely noise in the dataset. However, all these results are robust to using medians instead of means, suggesting it's not just a few large CfPs driving the results.
An important fact: I'm fairly certain that the order of these tweets is random (which is what they switched to with the mailing list). So, there's no obvious change that should be done. But an interesting thing to note!
A few notes on the data:
1) Dataset is last 3200 tweets
2) Dropped one tweet of a WP which skewed the sample ( https://twitter.com/nberpubs/status/1173272766151180288), for graphing purposes.
3) Goes from today back to 2017-09-12
Code is here: https://github.com/paulgp/paulgp
1) Dataset is last 3200 tweets
2) Dropped one tweet of a WP which skewed the sample ( https://twitter.com/nberpubs/status/1173272766151180288), for graphing purposes.
3) Goes from today back to 2017-09-12
Code is here: https://github.com/paulgp/paulgp
@johnjhorton you might enjoy this.
