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signaling research talent to outsiders. Awards should therefore be taken seriously as a means of motivating research that may …
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This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …
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Museums have many different goals beyond efficiency such as social equity, financial revenue, attracting donors and gaining international, regional or local prestige. Various pricing schemes are being discussed with the aim of reaching these goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free...
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Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This …’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …
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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking …
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