Cliffhanger Paper Titles

Moving to a new social network; FIND ME THERE! “Does”? “Do”? “Evidence from…”? Tell us what you found! Snarking on papers with uninformative titles since 2018.

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Remind me again why papers are 80 pages and the title doesn’t even tell you whether or not the horse jumped over the fucking fence

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@40yoap @fqroldan

[Bia @BeatrizGietner]

@scottlincicome @nberpubs You know that “no” should’ve been in the title 😂 @SayWhatYouFound

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Correct

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

One problem with making jokes in law review article titles is that people rely on titles to know what your article is about. You might be in stitches over your title, but it's making it harder for your readers—and probably less likely they'll spend their time trying to read it.

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Reverse mullet swyf title https://t.co/vEYDZk8HxD

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👀 👀 👀

[Colin Camerer @CFCamerer]

Poor titling and curse of knowledge in econ. I have no idea what "local projections" are. No interest in reading a paper that has an uninformative title and doesnt define LP in the abstract.

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@BeatrizGietner @Sam__Enright

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Good title (and cool paper) @AlexChinco https://t.co/Q9Ix0QC3QL

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@florianederer So do I

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@pengzell @AlexanderBryson @IZAWorldofLabor @Wage_Dynamics @JohnForth @csingletonecon @UCLSocRes @UCLSociology @EconUCL

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Approved

[Cameron @just_cameron]

Lmfao this is a great paper title

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🃏

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Well, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard

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I’ll allow it

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

In 2022, Germany raised their minimum wage by 22%, the highest in the EU. The result?

Significantly higher wages, no significant impact on layoffs/job retention, no decrease in overall employment levels, and only a modest decrease in hours that doesn't offset the higher wages.

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Actually, though.

[Daniel Gould, MD, PhD @DJGould94]

Rude

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@MaksymPolyakov @pmichaillat

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OK

[⑆Luke Stein⑈ @lukestein]

Um. cc: @SayWhatYouFound
https://t.co/TGuCtmTn4g

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I’m not surprised

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Surprised this paper title isn't "Borjas was wrong"

(Immigration INCREASED the wages of less educated native workers.)
https://t.co/TLj7ZBPKgd

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@BitsyPerlman @MaksymPolyakov We all appreciate you. (I’m thinking OP was ≫ rather than →)

[Owa Rweene @lukusem]

This is like @DanStein_econ writing. He always says "Please, let the title have the answer of our question".

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

Brilliant

I did once write a paper called, more or less, further considerations of the further considerations on XXX. Bureaucratic writing has its own problems.

I am also fond of blogs titled more or less "How does China hide its reserves?"

https://t.co/gijiECwztK