What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success

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Publication bias and merit in ecology (2007, background): “…due to spurious effects such as ‘alphabetical discrimination’ which occurs when earlier author surname initials are more highly cited than later positioned surnames in the alphabet (Tregenza and Wedell 1997, Einav and Yariv 2006) or difficulty with non-English surnames (Kotiaho 1999a, 1999b).”
Are women pawns in the political game? Evidence from elections to the Spanish Senate (2012, background): “Third, both female candidates in left-wing and right-wing parties are assigned to significantly worse positions than men (columns (8) and (9)).”
Behavioral economics. (2014, unknown): “Einav and Yariv (2005) note that authors of economics papers whose names come earlier in a list of authors benefit disproportionately by various measures, even though the order is almost always alphabetical. Categorization refers to the way in which the brain forms categories. Mullainathan (2002) sh”