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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control
Welsch, Roy E. - 1974
The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479059
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Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing : A q-r Theory
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency of academic journals to require multiple revisions of articles and by changes in the content of articles. Papers are modeled as varying along two quality dimensions: q and r. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470945
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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the length of time necessary to publish a paper in a top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing tendency of journals to require that papers be extensively...
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Market Value and Patent Citations : A First Look
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2000
As patent data become more available in machine-readable form, an increasing number of researchers have begun to use measures based on patents and their citations as indicators of technological output and information flow. This paper explores the economic meaning of these citation-based patent...
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The Meaning of Patent Citations : Report on the NBER/Case-Western Reserve Survey of Patentees
Jaffe, Adam B. - 2000
, the extent of their communication with other inventors, and the relationship of both importance and communication to … inventors report significant communication, at least some of which is in forms that suggests spillovers from the cited inventor … to the citing inventor. The perception of such communication was substantively and statistically significantly greater …
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Does Research Save Lives? The Local Spillovers of Biomedical Research on Mortality
McKibbin, Rebecca; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper investigates the local impact of biomedical research on mortality in the USA. Causally estimating the marginal value of biomedical research is challenging due to a lack of micro data linking health outcomes to plausibly exogenous variation in research. We create a new linkage between...
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FinTech Lending
Berg, Tobias; Fuster, Andreas; Puri, Manju - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we review the growing literature on FinTech lending - the provision of credit facilitated by technology that improves the customer-lender interaction or lenders' screening and monitoring of borrowers. FinTech lending has grown rapidly, though in developed economies like the U.S....
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A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals
Greenspon, Jacob; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using Fontana et al.'s (2019) database, we analyze levels and trends in the global distribution of authorship in economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking imbalances. While Western and Northern European authors...
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The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science
Jia, Ruixue; Roberts, Margaret E.; Wang, Ye; Yang, Eddie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies how recent investigations of foreign influence in research have affected the productivity of U.S. scientists in the field of life sciences. Using data from PubMed and Dimensions during 2010-2020, we compare scientists who collaborated with scientists in China during 2010-2014...
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The Benefits and Costs of a U.S. Child Allowance
Garfinkel, Irwin; Sariscsany, Laurel; Ananat, Elizabeth … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct a benefit-cost analysis of a U.S. child allowance, based on a systematic literature review of the highest quality available causal evidence on the short- and long-term effects of cash and near-cash transfers. In contrast to the previous studies we synthesize, which tend to measure a...
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