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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five
Heckman, James J. - 2018
This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...
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Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001
Ginther, Donna K. - 2010
Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a tenure track job, promotion to tenure, and promotion to full professor explain these facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate...
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The Career Effects of Scandal : Evidence from Scientific Retractions
Azoulay, Pierre - 2015
cause of the retraction (fraud vs. mistake) shape the magnitude of the penalty. We find that eminent scientists are more …
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The Impact of Postdoctoral Fellowships on a Future Independent Career in Federally Funded Biomedical Research
Heggeness, Misty - 2018
postdoctoral fellowship awards have the potential to promote retention of scientists in NIH-funded research and in the biomedical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921512
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Prospect Theory and Asset Prices
Barberis, Nicholas - 2010
We propose a new framework for pricing assets, derived in part from the traditional consumption-based approach, but which also incorporates two long-standing ideas in psychology: prospect theory, and evidence on how prior outcomes affect risky choice. Consistent with prospect theory, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763762
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Airline Hubs : Costs, Markups and the Implications of Customer Heterogeneity
Berry, Steven; Spiller, Pablo T.; Carnall, Michael - 2021
This paper estimates a model of airline competition that captures the two major features of the industry: product differentiation and economies of density. The results not only provide support to some of the traditional common wisdom in the industry, but are also useful for understanding major...
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Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017
Does academic economic research produce material of scientific value, or are academic economists writing only for clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949420
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The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns
Ding, Waverly W. - 2012
innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS) -- with career history data on research-active life scientists. This …: counts, quality, and co-authorship. Our analysis of a random sample of 3,771 research-active life scientists from 430 U … force. Women scientists, early-to-mid-career scientists, and those employed by mid-to-lower-tier institutions benefit from …
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Attracting Talent : Location Choices of Foreign-Born Phds in the Us
Grogger, Jeffrey - 2013
-income countries and innovation makes residing in these countries more attractive for scientists and engineers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087060
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Cognitive Mobility : Labor Market Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas
Borjas, George J. - 2013
Knowledge producers conducting research on a particular set of questions may respond to supply and demand shocks by shifting resources to a different set of questions. Cognitive mobility measures the transition from one location to another in idea space. We examine the cognitive mobility flows...
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