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Consumer choices are increasingly mediated by algorithms, which use data on those past choices to infer consumer preferences and then curate future choice sets. Behavioral economics suggests one reason these algorithms so often fail: choices can systematically deviate from preferences. For...
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We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...
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cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant dollars. In contrast, we found no significant gender differences in … 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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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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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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