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We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four …
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In 2017, the federal government invested over $40 billion on university research; another $16 billion came from private … scientists in finding other sources of funding. Understanding the effect of such different funding streams on research outputs is … structure of research and in terms of research outputs. For example, federal funding is often intended to affect the structure …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …
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-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural …
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survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …
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Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend … taxpayer money for "something". There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order … innovation and productivity growth. In this paper we use new data to examine how the main organizational structure used to train …
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survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …
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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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This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the innovation subsidy; far from "doing better" as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …
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