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Heights and Human Welfare : Recent Developments and New Directions
Steckel, Richard H. - 2008
Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The expansion occurred in several areas, but especially within economics, indicating that heights are now...
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Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research
Roach, Michael - 2012
. Using survey-based measures of the dimensions of knowledge flows, we identify sources of systematic measurement error … and direction of measurement error bias suggests that measuring knowledge flows with patent citations can lead to …
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Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? Measuring the Effect of Publications on Science Careers
Ginther, Donna K.; Zambrana, Carlos; Oslund, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
demonstrates that publications likely suffer from non-classical measurement error. Using horse race and instrumental variable … models, we confirm that the Gold Standard data are relatively free from measurement error but show that the Clarivate data … suffer from non-classical measurement error. We employ a variety of methods to adjust the Clarivate data for false negatives …
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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
A survey of recent patentees was conducted to elicit their perceptions regarding the importance of their inventions, the extent of their communication with other inventors, and the relationship of both importance and communication to observed patent citations. A cohort of 1993 patentees were...
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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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