Academic research commercialization is examined in order to investigate shifting relationships between public and private science in the academic community. The last quarter century has displayed an enormous amount of change in academic involvement with commerce. Broad university-based efforts...

Great scientific output typically peaks in middle age. A classic literature has emphasized comparisons across fields in the age of peak performance. More recent work highlights large underlying variation in age and creativity patterns, where the average age of great scientific contributions has...

Using the EconLit dissertation database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics from names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent...