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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Kovash, Kenneth - 2009
pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both … data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is …
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Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History
Aizenman, Joshua - 2006
This paper studies the impact of several factors on the geographical distribution of basic scientific research across countries and time, and explains the dynamics of the process that has resulted in the United States becoming the undisputed leader in basic research. Our study is based on the...
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Creative Careers : The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics
Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005
This paper studies life cycle creativity among Nobel laureate economists. We identify two distinct life cycles of scholarly creativity. Experimental innovators work inductively, accumulating knowledge from experience. Conceptual innovators work deductively, applying abstract principles. We find...
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"Hall of Fame" Voting : The Econometric Society
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001
We examine the determinants of election as Fellow of the Econometric Society, an example of voting within a group to confer honor on some members and perhaps achieve additional status for the entire group. Using data from annual elections from 1990-2000, we find that objective measures of...
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The Impact of Postdoctoral Fellowships on a Future Independent Career in Federally Funded Biomedical Research
Heggeness, Misty L. - 2018
The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is a major research training program … receiving subsequent NIH research awards from 6.3 to 8.2 percentage points and of achieving an NIH-funded R01 award, an …
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The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Levitt, Steven D. - 2016
We test the effect of performance-based incentives on educational achievement in a low-performing school district using a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an achievement standard based on multiple measures of performance...
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Inventing Prizes : A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy
Khan, B. Zorina - 2015
Prizes for innovations are currently experiencing a renaissance, following their marked decline during the nineteenth century. However, Daguerre's "patent buyout," the longitude prize, inducement prizes for butter substitutes and billiard balls, the activities of the Royal Society of Arts and...
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Prizes and Productivity : How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output
Borjas, George J. - 2013
mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The two groups have similar publication rates until the award year …
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Matthew : Effect or Fable?
Azoulay, Pierre - 2012
In a market context, a status effect occurs when actors are accorded differential recognition for their efforts depending on their location in a status ordering, holding constant the quality of these efforts. In practice, because it is very difficult to measure quality, this ceteris paribus...
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Human Capital Reallocation Across Firms : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Shocks
Gilje, Erik P.; Taillard, Jerôme P.; Zeng, Linghang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...
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