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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...

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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 …

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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 Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation.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...

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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...

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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...

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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018

institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

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The truth-telling of truth-seekers : evidence from online experiments with scientists

Drupp, Moritz A.; Khadjavi, Menusch; Voss, Rüdiger - 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...

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Using chebyshev polynomials to approximate partial differential equations

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor); … - 2008

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Dissipative advertising signals quality even without repeat purchases

Linnemer, Laurent (contributor) - 2008

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Which Communities should be afraid of mobility? : the effects of agglomeration economies on the sensitivity of firm location to local taxes

Jofre-Monseny, Jordi (contributor); … - 2008

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