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The human capital construct is deep in the bones of economics and finds reference by many classical economists, even if they did not use the phrase. The term "human capital," seldom mentioned in economics before the 1950s, increased starting in the 1960s and blossomed in the 1990s. The upsurge...
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This paper examines argues that while two distinct perspectives characterize the foundations of the public funding of research - filling a selection gap and solving a disclosure problem - in fact both the selection choices of public funders and their criteria for disclosure and commercialization...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in two important ways. First, it utilizes a dataset that combines information on the diffusion of two noteworthy and early innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System...
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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 …
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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 …
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promotion in other fields including biomedical science, physical science, political science, mathematics and statistics, and …
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Knowledge of how science is consumed in public domains is essential for a deeper understanding of the role of science … 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 …
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