That's not CES as in Constant Elasticity of Substitution. For a good example of that kind of CES paper, see Acemoglu, Autor, and Lyle. I mean CES as in Center for Economic Studies (part of the Census Bureau). I am reading a research paper from the CES and I came across the following sentence:
The next row is for the estimated Popratio coefficient and it’s T-statistic.
There are a few things I don't like about this sentence. First, "Popratio" is an unusual way to abbreviate the population ratio variable. I think POPRATIO would be more standard. When variable names have to be included in papers, usually ALL_CAPS (i.e. all uppercase and italicized) is the norm. Second, I prefer t-statistic to T-statistic (it's t-distribution, not T-distribution). Lastly, I prefer "its" to "it's" when I want to use a possessive pronoun.
Maybe this is all changing in Generation Next, but I really can't stand reading papers with spelling and grammar errors. I will allow Yglesias to have spelling and grammar errors on his blog, but if the same errors made it into his book, I'd be annoyed.
Also, I wish those damn kids would stay off my lawn.
Posted by: PLW | April 30, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Here's a post you'll appreciate. Apparently PUP is pulling a recent book because it had too many typos. http://chronicle.com/news/article/4427/princeton-u-press-recalls-typo-filled-book-and-says-it-will-reprint
I love all the comments about how the world is going to pot and if PUP paid "fair" wages this would never have happened. Also, I wish the kids would get off my yard already.
Posted by: PLW | May 02, 2008 at 02:49 PM