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NIH Peer Review : Challenges and Avenues for Reform
Azoulay, Pierre - 2014
The National Institute of Health (NIH), through its extramural grant program, is the primary public funder of health-related research in the United States. Peer review at NIH is organized around the twin principles of investigator initiation and rigorous peer review, and this combination has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066024
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Can Innovators Be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2018
Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927018
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The Risk of Caution : Evidence from an R&D Experiment
Carson, Richard T.; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Louviere, Jordan; … - 2022
Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … effect on the rate of breakthrough innovation and the profitability of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321909
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The Effects of Prize Structures on Innovative Performance
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2022
Successful innovation is essential for the survival and growth of organizations but how best to incentivize innovation … significantly more novel innovation relative to a compensation scheme that offers the same total compensation, but shared across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308013
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Going Green in China : Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations
Fan, Haichao - 2019
performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858024
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The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity : Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China
Chang, Tom - 2016
China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989130
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Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance : Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2018
country using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) in China. The NCEE is one of the most important … institutions in China and affects hundreds of millions of families. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in temperature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914709
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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019
detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of fires on cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863692