Thomas HeckeleiPublishing and Writing in Agricultural Economics1 Results from assignment 1  Task: Five most important publications in economics on “How minimum wage regulations might affect unemployment in Germany”  Summary statistics  15 respondents  only 6 references chosen more than once. “Winner” with 4: Knabe & Schöb, Finanzarchiv  Overall 64 different publications  quite diverse  Search technique by order of importance: Google Scholar, web of science,...  Most cited author: Knabe & Schöb…more than the „winner paper“

Thomas HeckeleiPublishing and Writing in Agricultural Economics2 Results from assignment 1  Criteria used:  Times cited (careful: publication date matters!)  Overview on topic (  older JEL article by Brown et al.)  Authors well cited (cross reference with others)  Journal quality (ranking, IF....) but not emphasized too much  Keywords: minimum wage, unemployment, Germany (?)  Observations  Some background bias (ag-journals ? Poverty?)  Sometimes only new  balance  Repeatedly narrow sectoral focus of references  References of overview books and articles could be used to look up new publications of author’s in the field

Thomas HeckeleiPublishing and Writing in Agricultural Economics3 Results from assignment 1  Observations  Only German focus potentially problematic  Watch for newer journal versions of working papers!!!  Sometimes weird combinations  two very old articles + 3 very specific  3 of 5 “grey” literature  Sometimes the source (journal, book, working paper series,…..) not mentioned  always include as it contains credibility and determines how you should use the reference  Generally: the way you focused and structured your response to the assignment is likely to hint at the challenges you face in academic writing and the publication process….