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Low, high and super congestion of an open-access natural resource: the autarky case
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2020
Production of commodities based on open-access renewable natural resources (NR) has usually been examined under "low" congestion (LC) - where MC AC and both increase with output. I identify two additional congestion categories, "high" (HC) and "super" (SC) congestion - where AC is...
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When paywall goes AWOL : the demand for open access education research
Gershenson, Seth; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Wang, Rui - 2019
As universities cut library funding and forego expensive journal subscriptions, many academic organizations and researchers, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), are moving towards open-access publications that are freely downloadable by anyone with a working internet...
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Why has science become an old man's game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
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Why do women leave science and engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of … other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally are taken into account. -- science and …
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Perceptions and practices of replication by social and behavioral scientists : making replications a mandatory element of curricula would be useful
Fecher, Benedikt; Fräßdorf, Mathis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2016
hallmark of good scientific practice and it has lately become a key concern for research communities and science policy makers …
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Did cheaper flights change the direction of science?
Catalini, Christian; Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick - 2016
We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...
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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 economics of replication
Müller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2017
Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives...
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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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Why is math cheaper than English? : understanding cost differences in higher education
Hemelt, Steven W.; Stange, Kevin M.; Furquim, Fernando; … - 2018
Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen “applicants” in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...
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