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The State of U.S. Corporate Governance : What's Right and What's Wrong?

Holmström, Bengt R. - 2009

The U.S. corporate governance system has recently been heavily criticized, largely as a result of failures at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and some other prominent companies. Those failures and criticisms, in turn, have served as catalysts for legislative change (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) and...

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Using Split Samples to Improve Inference About Causal Effects

Fafchamps, Marcel - 2016

We discuss a method aimed at reducing the risk that spurious results are published. Researchers send their datasets to an independent third party who randomly generates training and testing samples. Researchers perform their analysis on the former and once the paper is accepted for publication...

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Stagnation and Scientific Incentives

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2020

administrators and funding agencies utilizing these new metrics in research evaluation. We demonstrate empirically that measures of … utilized in scientist evaluation, scientists might pursue more innovative, riskier, projects …

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Text as Data

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2017

An ever increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research. We discuss the features that make text different from other forms of data, offer a practical overview of relevant...

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Above a Swamp : A Theory of High-Quality Scientific Production

Kiri, Bralind - 2015

We elaborate a model of the incentives of scientists to perform activities of control and criticism when these activities, just like the production of novel findings, are costly, and we study the strategic interaction between these incentives. We then use the model to assess policies meant to...

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It's Good to Be First : Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers

Feenberg, Daniel R. - 2015

Choices are frequently made from lists where there is by necessity some ordering of options. In such situations individuals can exhibit both primacy bias towards the first option and recency bias towards the last option. We examine this phenomenon in a particularly interesting context: consumer...

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Tools or Toys? the Impact of High Technology on Scholarly Productivity

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Oster, Sharon M. - 2021

Toys. The impact of computers on productivity has been examined directly on macro data and indirectly (on wages) using microeconomic data. This study examines the direct impact on the productivity of scholarship by considering how high technology might alter patterns of coauthoring of articles...

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Rational Ignorance in Education : A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

Dee, Thomas S. - 2010

Despite the concern that student plagiarism has become increasingly common, there is relatively little objective data on the prevalence or determinants of this illicit behavior. This study presents the results of a natural field experiment designed to address these questions. Over 1,200 papers...

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Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?

Figlio, David N. - 2013

This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student's first term at...

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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers

Taylor, Eric S. - 2011

The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …

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