CES paper

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.

Comments

[PLW]

Also, I wish those damn kids would stay off my lawn.

[PLW]

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.