[MUD-Dev] Academic rejection of male/female paper

[Castronova]

I thought many on the list might be interested (and some happy!) to
find that the paper I wrote on male/female price differences has
been rejected by the prestigious American Economic Review. The
reviewer praised the methods and expressed confidence in the
validity of the result. Furthermore, he/she did not balk at all at
the possibility that these numbers might imply some kind of sexual
discrimination. However, he/she just felt that the affairs of "a
small group of individuals who play virtual reality games" are not
very important. The critical sentence

  "Personally, I'm much less interested in the pricing of the
  characteristics of 'virtual' things than of those that are real."

Among professional people, the line between the virtual and the real
is still very thick. Food for thought.

Edward Castronova
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