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Choi, Joonkyu; Goldschlag, Nathan; Haltiwanger, John C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore the role of founding teams in accounting for the post-entry dynamics of startups. While the entrepreneurship literature has largely focused on business founders, we broaden this view by considering founding teams as both the founders and early joiners. We investigate the idea that the...

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Productivity and Firm Turnover in Israeli Industry : 1979-1988

Griliches, Zvi - 1992

An analysis of a large panel data set on Israeli industrial firms finds that most of the growth in aggregate productivity comes from productivity changes within firms rather than from entry, exit, or differential growth; that firms which will exit in the future have lower productivity...

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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution

Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018

We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...

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Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History

Aizenman, Joshua - 2006

leader in basic research. Our study is based on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global …

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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

postdoctoral fellowship awards have the potential to promote retention of scientists in NIH-funded research and in the biomedical …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

Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes are designed to encourage it. But how does winning a prestigious prize affect future output? We compare the productivity of Fields medalists (winners of the top mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The...

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