| Outcomes | 2012 × APSA | n | 2012 × APSA | n | 2012 × APSA | n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | |||||
| (1) | No. of downloads (all papers) | –5.3509 [1.5684]*** | 29,101 | –5.0827 [1.5770]*** | 29,035 | –4.4649 [1.7089]*** | 21,524 |
| (2) | Posted in SSRN | –0.0225 [0.0136]* | 29,101 | –0.0209 [0.0136]* | 29,035 | –0.0134 [0.0147] | 21,524 |
| (3) | No. of downloads (if in SSRN) | –26.9540 [13.8090]* | 2,755 | –22.0643 [13.9366] | 2,747 | –8.6627 [16.3347] | 2,369 |
| Excluding articles that appear in both APSA and MPSA meetings | |||||||
| (4) | No. of downloads (all papers) | –6.6393 [1.6456]*** | 27,120 | –6.5112 [1.6537]*** | 27,056 | –5.9000 [1.7837]*** | 19,910 |
| (5) | Posted in SSRN | –0.0301 [0.0139]** | 27,120 | –0.0297 [0.0139]** | 27,056 | –0.0203 [0.01494] | 19,910 |
| (6) | No. of downloads (if in SSRN) | –46.1577 [19.7582]** | 2,416 | –41.6065 [19.8588]** | 2,408 | –34.9412 [25.2535] | 2,090 |
| Article covariates | No | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Matched sample | No | No | Yes | ||||
↵Notes: Observations are at the article level, and outcomes are recorded “three years after” the 2012 conference dates. Columns 1 and 2 use the full paper sample (with all of the MPSA papers), but exclude papers that accumulated more than 500 downloads. Column 3 uses the corresponding matched sample (explained in Section III.B.3 and described in Table A2). Each entry in Columns 1, 2, and 3 represents an estimate for the 2012 APSA coefficient from a separate regression. All regressions include controls for an indicator for whether the paper is in an APSA meeting, conference year dummies, and an APSA specific year trend. Regressions in Columns 2 and 3 also include covariates for the number of authors in the paper, the total number of publications by the article authors multiplied by the average journal impact factor, an indicator for whether any author had a previous paper posted in SSRN, and affiliation dummies (using the highest ranking affiliation among the article authors). Robust standard errors are in brackets. *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01.1.