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We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …
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analyzing the process, products, and impact of research. It grows from and engages the work of a diverse and vibrant community …. This paper situates the UMETRICS effort in the context of research evaluation and ongoing data infrastructure efforts in …, and teams offers dramatic possibilities for data linkage, the evaluation of research investments, and the development of …
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We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … research output and thus provide a novel ranking measure that explicitly takes into account the spillover effect generated in …
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European countries (using EU-SILC data) and the US (using CPS data). We find a robust tendency in all countries to compensate …
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these transatlantic differences may be related to the different sectoral structures in the US and the EU, we differentiated … change ; US ; EU …
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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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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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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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hallmark of good scientific practice and it has lately become a key concern for research communities and science policy makers … research community is facing the challenge of assuring the quality of research and maintaining trust in the scientific … enterprise. Replication studies are necessary to detect erroneous research. Thus, the replicability of research is considered a …
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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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