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A firm scientific community: industry participation and knowledge diffusion

Baruffaldi, Stefano Horst; Poege, Felix - 2020

We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique … flights as an instrumental variable for the participation choice of scientists between a conference where a firm participates … with scientists that remain external to the firm are likely a key mechanism of this diffusion. The effects are remarkably …

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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 - 2020

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 …

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New linked data on research investments : scientific workforce, productivity, and public value

Lane, Julia; Owen-Smith, Jason; Rosen, Rebecca; … - 2014

Longitudinal micro-data derived from transaction level information about wage and vendor payments made by federal grants on multiple U.S. campuses are being developed in a partnership involving researchers, university administrators, representatives of federal agencies, and others. This paper...

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The renumeration of British academics

Euwals, Rob; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2000

This paper examines both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination within the UK academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 635 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. In the existing literature, the fact that in many occupations, employees...

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Does holding a postdoctoral position bring benefits for advancing to academia?

Lin, Eric S.; Chiu, Shih-Yung - 2015

Postdoc is a special transitional position for those with a doctoral degree and is usually regarded as an investment to accumulate the additional human and social capital needed to facilitate future job searches or to add to an academic reserve army of unemployed PhDs. Given the prevalence of...

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Researchers' career transitions over the life cycle

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Kondo, Ayako; Saito, Keiji - 2016

Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over the life cycle. The decrease in total hours worked and the increase in time spent on administrative tasks explain the decrease in research time. We also show that the decrease...

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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....

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Early career research production in economics : does mentoring matter?

García, Andrés; Otero, Jesús G.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2018

We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...

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Publishing and promotion in economics : the tyranny of the top five

Heckman, James J.; Moktan, Sidharth - 2018

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...

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Salary and the gender salary gap in the academic profession

Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 1999

The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination. This paper considers salary determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour...

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