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Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the …
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well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …
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We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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This paper explores the association between studying science at the higher secondary stage and labor market earnings … show that those who studied science in high school have 22% greater earnings than those who studied business and humanities …, even after controlling for several measures of ability. These higher earnings among science students are further enhanced …
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This paper explores the association between studying science at the higher secondary stage and labor market earnings … show that those who studied science in high school have 22% greater earnings than those who studied business and humanities …, even after controlling for several measures of ability. These higher earnings among science students are further enhanced …
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world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with … low mobility costs in the modern world. …
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increased exponentially since the Second World War, growing on average by 17% annually since 1961; the average disruption score …
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-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the …
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the role of inputs from "Science" (firm-level publications' stock) on firms' labour productivity, showing that the effect …
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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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