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Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This …’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …
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This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of …, researchers and teachers and open up national funding schemes. The EU should take more initiatives to fund research through the …
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signaling research talent to outsiders. Awards should therefore be taken seriously as a means of motivating research that may …
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking …
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We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The …
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. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory public-good game with voluntary contributions and economies of scale, we construct a situation in which expanding a group’s size yields potential efficiency gains, but only...
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choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we … argues that the ultimatum game is an extremely versatile tool for research in bargaining and on social preferences. Finally …, we provide examples for open research questions and directions for future studies. …
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