The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …

perspectives: (1) individual level (the degree to which team members specialize vs. work as generalists), (2) activity level (the … degree to which activities are concentrated among few team members vs. distributed among many) and (3) the intersection … explore team-based knowledge production using a newly available type of data – the disclosures of author contributions on …

coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a quot;hierarchical production functionquot; in which output is the … that coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a …

possibly preferences that are closer to those of Democrats. We interpret these results as evidence that cooperation is mostly …

team size by the number of authors on a scientific paper. Using this measure we find that team size increases by 50 percent … over the 19-year period. We supplement team size with measures of domestic and foreign institutional collaborations, which … capture the geographic dispersion of team workers. The time series evidence suggests that the trend towards larger and more …

that firms that “cast” their conference calls by disproportionately calling on bullish analysts tend to underperform in the …

We document the representation of female economists on the conference programs at the NBER Summer Institute from 2001 …-track professors, but is ten percentage points lower than the share of women among assistant professors. Finally, within conference …