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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa

Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...

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Explorations of Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...

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Trust, Intangible Assets, and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy; Mairesse, Jacques; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …

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Innovation and Welfare : Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions

Jaumandreu, Jordi - 2010

that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

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Innovators : Songwriters

Galenson, David W. - 2009

Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...

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Two Paths to Abstract Art : Kandinsky and Malevich

Galenson, David W. - 2020

Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both great Russian painters who became pioneers of abstract art during the second decade of the twentieth century. Yet the forms of their art differed radically, as did their artistic methods and goals. Kandinsky, an experimental artist, approached...

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Language in Visual Art : The Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their innovation was quickly adopted by other artists. Words, phrases, and …

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Analyzing Artistic Innovation : The Greatest Breakthroughs of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

This paper considers not only when in their careers the greatest artists of the twentieth century made their greatest discoveries, but also how quickly they made them. The results underscore the dominant position of Picasso and Cubism in twentieth-century art: Picasso alone accounts for the two...

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The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

A survey of textbooks reveals that scholars consider Alfred Stieglitz to have been the greatest photographer of the twentieth century, followed in order by Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, and Eugène Atget. Stieglitz, Evans, and Atget were experimental artists, who were committed to...

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