in human society. While science is heavily supported by public funding, common depictions suggest that scientific … quality of research and its public use, and little correspondence between the funding of science and its public use. This … amidst these differences, we find key forms of alignment in the interface between science and society. First, despite …

The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by … US science by crowding out better-connected domestic scientists …

promotion in other fields including biomedical science, physical science, political science, mathematics and statistics, and … engineering. We separated the sample by the research intensity of institutions and found suggestive evidence that these results … were being driven by less research-intensive institutions …

Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth …, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing … cycle and (ii) from solo researchers toward teams. This paper summarizes the evidence that science has evolved - and …

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …-related constraints and dissatisfaction with working conditions are only secondary factors. My results differ due to my use of non-science …

innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS) -- with career history data on research-active life scientists. This … research design allows for proper identification of the availability of access to IT as well as a means to directly identify …: counts, quality, and co-authorship. Our analysis of a random sample of 3,771 research-active life scientists from 430 U …

in science, but the gender gap is entirely explained by fertility decisions. We find that in science overall, there is no … that women in science will advance up the academic job ladder beyond their early post-doctorate years, while both marriage …

value from them. We argue that the growing reliance on science in inventions enhances MFT. In addition to higher quality … inventions, reliance on science may enhance gains from trade and reduce the transfer cost of knowledge and other transaction … costs. Using large scale data, we show that patents citing science are more likely to be traded, especially for novel …

. interdisciplinary projects. Finally, we show how division of labor is related to the quality of teams' research output. We discuss …