We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …, however, are not uniform across scientist types: younger scientists and scientists that are more productive than their local …

analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the … large Ramp;D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on whether migration improves scientists' productivity, but we find that …

-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the …

This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes …

selected) scientific evaluators lack research expertise. Overall, our analysis suggests that the proliferation of 'predatory …

is driven mainly by researchers with a weak research profile. At the same time, information from 300,000 individual …

We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students … and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our analysis is based on an original dataset covering nearly 20,000 PhD …-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same …