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This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency of academic journals to require multiple revisions of articles and by changes in the content of articles. Papers are modeled as varying along two quality dimensions: q and r. The...
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are linked to economic theory. We then use this system to classify all published field experiments in the five top … period, we find that economic theory has played a more central role in the laboratory than in the field. Finally, we discuss …
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The …
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Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...
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Why do inefficient %uF818 non-growth enhancing %uF818 institutions emerge and persist? This paper develops a simple framework to provide some answers to this question. Political institutions determine the allocation of political power, and economic institutions determine the framework for...
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This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a formal model of that organizational choice that considers...
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In this survey of recent research in health economics, I concentrate on studies that have appeared since 1971 or are in progress. The survey reflects in part my own research interests and biases and is not meant to be comprehensive. Four topics are covered: (1) demand for adults' health and...
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citations to assess various potential explanations. Several observations are consistent with the hypothesis that the Internet …
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and to what extent the Internet will affect the location of economic activity. Even after the very substantial … making agglomeration more important. We argue that the Internet will produce more of the same forces for deagglomeration, but …. This is not likely to be affected by the Internet, which allows long distance 'conversations' but not 'handshakes.' …
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aggregate moments from a panel of Internet users. We evaluate the fit of the model to key features of the data and use it to … compute the predictions of the supply model. We discuss how such a model can inform debates about the effects of the Internet …
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