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A Macroscope of English Print Culture, 1530-1700, Applied to the Coevolution of Ideas on Religion, Science, and Institutions
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2023
ideas on religion, science, and institutions. Innovations in religious ideas induced strong responses in the other two … to science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358665
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Bad Science : Retractions and Media Coverage
Alabrese, Eleonora - 2023
Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in drawing broader attention to research, but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262577
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Academics appreciate awards: a new aspect of incentives in research
Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009
This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264544
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Does Scientific Progress Affect Culture? A Digital Text Analysis
Giorcelli, Michela; Lacetera, Nicola; Marinoni, Astrid - 2019
theory of evolution through natural selection by Charles Darwin, and examine the diffusion of certain key concepts that … characterized this theory in the broader cultural discourse and social imaginary. We find that some concepts in Darwin’s theory … relation between two key factors of long-term economic growth – science and culture. Considering the evolution of these two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018190
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The Truth-Telling of Truth-Seekers: Evidence from Online Experiments with Scientists
Drupp, Moritz A.; Khadjavi, Menusch; Voss, Rudi - 2024
Academic honesty is crucial for scientific advancement, yet replication crises and misconduct scandals are omnipresent. We provide evidence on scientists' truth-telling from two incentivized coin-tossing experiments with more than 1,300 scientists. Experiment I, with predominantly European and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534295
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Bad Science: Retractions and Media Coverage
Alabrese, Eleonora - 2022
Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in drawing broader attention to research, but may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290105
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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315164
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Withering academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university' and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274980
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118350
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Workforce or Workfare?
Brett, Craig - 2011
This article explores the use of workfare as part of an optimal tax mix when labor supply responses are along the extensive margin. Particular attention is paid to the interaction between workfare and an earned income tax credit, two policies that are designed to provide additional incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124395