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The creative arts are characterized by high degrees of competition and unequal levels of success and fame. The number of highly successful artists pales in comparison to the number of those who live and work under precarious conditions. With a focus on contemporary German literature, this research projects studies the extent and the reasons for gender inequalities in a field that is characterized by great disparity and ambiguity. Do men and women write different types of books? Are they published by different publishers, reviewed differently and with different frequency? Who wins what book prizes?

SRM Special Issue: Learning Through Failures

In recent years, social scientists have increasingly relied on survey experiments to estimate causal effects. As with any experimental design, survey experiments can fail, deviate from (preregistered) plans, or yield results that researchers did not anticipate. Researchers find themselves in situations with null, unexpected, inconsistent, or inconclusive results and must then decide if these are a product of the theory being tested, the experimental design, or both.