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Revenge of the experts : will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?
Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2021
science and scientists. Building on the “impressionable years hypothesis” that attitudes are durably formed during the ages 18 … reduces trust in scientists and in the benefits of their work. We also illustrate that the decline in trust is driven by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431802
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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/10003807766
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Key success drivers in public research grants : funding the seeds of radical innovation in academia?
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2016
We study what makes a research grant application successful in terms of ability, type of research, experience, and demographics of the applicants. But our main objective is to investigate whether public funding organizations support the teams that are most likely to undertake transformative or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451136
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Public school access or stay-at-home partner : factors mitigating the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on academic parents
Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchikov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801484
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Non-standard errors
Menkveld, Albert J. - 2021
In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696895
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What crisis? : taking stock of management researchers' experiences with and views of scholarly misconduct
Hoover, Gary A.; Hopp, Christian - 2017
This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717154
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Superstar economists : coauthorship networks and research output
Hsieh, Chih-sheng; König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; … - 2018
We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925969
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The truth-telling of truth-seekers : evidence from online experiments with scientists
Drupp, Moritz A.; Khadjavi, Menusch; Voss, Rüdiger - 2024
. 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 North-American scientists, shows that fewer scientists over … replicate Experiment I's effect for North-American scientists, but find the opposite for Southern European and East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456314
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Politicized scientists : credibility cost of political expression on Twitter
Alabrese, Eleonora; Capozza, Francesco; Garg, Prashant - 2024
The study measures scientists’ polarization on social media and its impact on public perceptions of their credibility …. Analyzing 98,000 scientists on Twitter from 2016 to 2022 reveals significant divergence in expressed political opinions. An … vignettes with synthetic academic profiles varying scientists’ political affiliations based on real tweets. Politically neutral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637337
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Old before their time : the role of employers in retirement decisions
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2015
Do elderly workers retire early voluntarily, or are they induced (or even forced) by their employees? To establish the relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the EU - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA). A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406562