April 2025
This article introduces a novel dataset on seminar presentations derived from acknowledgments in 20 top economics journals. I document that articles published in the top five journals are presented more frequently, with presentations being highly concentrated at 12 leading institutions, primarily in the Americas. Significant associations are found between presenting at Harvard and publishing in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), and between presenting at the University of Chicago and publishing in the Journal of Political Economy (JPE). Articles presented at Harvard and published in QJE have similar average citations but higher variance, with Harvard-affiliated authors more likely to receive below-median citations. JPE articles presented at the University of Chicago have similar average citations compared to other JPE publications.