TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Praag, Mirjam C. van
AU  - Praag, Bernard M. S. van
        TI  - The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
        PY  - 2007/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2673
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2673
        AB  - Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced a faster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.
        KW  - incentives
KW  - performance measurement
KW  - name ordering
KW  - economists
        ER  -