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factors affect research production during the pandemic. Consistent with the literature, research productivity falls more for …) negatively affects research productivity. Also novel are the results that concerns about feedback, isolation, and health have …
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This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U … researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is 1.4-6.7 percent and is higher in private universities. Productivity growth per … teacher is 0.8-1.1 percent and is higher in public universities. Growth in research productivity within universities exceeds …
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We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been …
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licensing is due to the productivity observable inputs or driven by a change in the propensity of faculty and administrators to …. Nonparametric programming techniques are applied to survey data from 65 universities to calculate total factor productivity (TFP …) growth in each state. To examine the sources of TFP growth, the productivity analysis is augmented by survey evidence from …
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. Combining these expressions with publicly available data on salary, job titles, department affiliation, research productivity … preferences for unionization at research universities. We find that faculty with higher pay and greater research productivity are … accounting for pay and productivity, faculty in fields documented elsewhere to have more politically liberal participants are …
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This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, positive causal effect of funding on knowledge production. This effect...
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The paper examines the determinants of scientific productivity (number of articles and journals' impact factor) for a … productivity are addressed by specifying a generalized Tobit model, in which a selection probit equation accounts for the … individual scientist's probability of promotion to her present rank, and a productivity regression estimates the effects of age …
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Due to improving information technology, the growing complexity of research problems, and policies designed to foster interdisciplinary research, the practice of science in the United States has undergone significant structural change. Using a sample of 110 top U.S. universities observed during...
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In this paper we quantify the extent and magnitude of agglomeration spillovers from a formal institution whose sole mission is the creation and dissemination of knowledge -- the research university. We use the fact that universities follow a fixed endowment spending policy based on the market...
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Around 1875 the U.S. had none of the world's leading research universities; today, it accounts for the majority of the top-ranked. Many observers cite events surrounding World War II as the source of this reversal. We present evidence that U.S. research universities had surpassed most countries'...
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