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External influence as an indicator of scholarly importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
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A partial identification approach to identifying the determinants of human capital accumulation: an application to teachers
Mehta, Nirav - 2022
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
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Techies and firm level productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288151
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
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Diff-in-diff in death : estimating and explaining artist-specific death effects
Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zigova, Katarina - 2020
age and reputation at death. This result is robust to various specifications and measures of reputation. We present as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194643
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Lock-in effects in online labor markets
Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021
This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability … on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent … comparing a policy regime with and without reputation portability, we vary lock-in exploitation using platform fees to consider …
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Reaching for gold! : the impact of a positive reputation shock on career choice
Goller, Daniel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2023
We analyze the causal influence a positive reputation shock for a particular occupation may have on career choice. The … measure of the positive reputation shock is the unpredictable event that a young adult from one's own country wins a (gold …
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Dynamic entry in vertically differentiated markets
Auer, Raphael A.; Sauré, Philip - 2016
We develop a model of vertical innovation in which firms incur a market entry cost and choose a unique level of quality. Once established, firms compete for market shares, selling to consumers with heterogeneous tastes for quality. The equilibrium of the pricing game exists and is unique within...
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Academic exclusion : some experiences
Hillman, Arye L.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016
We describe and compare the experiences of academic exclusion of Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock. While aspects of the circumstances differed, a common element was academic exclusion because of challenges to mainstream views. Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock...
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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German
Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
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