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engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level … in engineers in 1880 accounts for a 16% increase in US county income today, and patenting capacity contributes another 10 … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …
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science and scientists. Building on the “impressionable years hypothesis” that attitudes are durably formed during the ages 18 … reduces trust in scientists and in the benefits of their work. We also illustrate that the decline in trust is driven by the …
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build as readily on the work of Chinese researchers, relative to the work of other foreign scientists, even in a setting … where Chinese scientists have long excelled. …
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We explore how socio-economic background shapes academia, collecting the largest dataset of U.S. academics’ backgrounds and research output. Individuals from poorer backgrounds have been severely underrepresented for seven decades, especially in humanities and elite universities. Father’s...
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This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...
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We study what makes a research grant application successful in terms of ability, type of research, experience, and demographics of the applicants. But our main objective is to investigate whether public funding organizations support the teams that are most likely to undertake transformative or...
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We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
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I model the strategic interaction between scientists aiming for promotion and a research institution that seeks a …
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This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence...
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. We provide evidence on scientists' truth-telling from two incentivized coin-tossing experiments with more than 1 …,300 scientists. Experiment I, with predominantly European and North-American scientists, shows that fewer scientists over … replicate Experiment I's effect for North-American scientists, but find the opposite for Southern European and East …
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