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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief
Akerlof, George - 2017
scientific revolutions: when tenured scientists show favoritism toward candidates for tenure with similar beliefs, science may …
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Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions : What Do Racial Preferences Do?
Rothstein, Jesse - 2010
The Supreme Court has held repeatedly that race-based preferences in public university admissions are constitutional. But debates over the wisdom of affirmative action continue. Opponents of these policies argue that preferences are detrimental to minority students -- that by placing these...
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Mismatch in Law School
Rothstein, Jesse - 2010
An important criticism of race-based higher education admission preferences is that they may hurt minority students who attend more selective schools than they would in the absence of such preferences. We categorize the non-experimental research designs available for the study of so-called...
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Supply vs. Demand Under an Affirmative Action Ban : Estimates from Uc Law Schools
Yagan, Danny - 2014
Affirmative action bans can reduce black enrollment not only by reducing black admission advantages (contracting demand) but also by reducing applications (contracting supply) from black students who can still gain admission but prefer alternative schools that still practice affirmative action....
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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 …
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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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Exploring Tradeoffs in the Organization of Scientific Work : Collaboration and Scientific Reward
Bikard, Michaël - 2014
When do scientists and other knowledge workers organize into collaborative teams and why do they do so for some … research activity of 661 faculty scientists at one institution over a 30-year period to explore the tradeoff between …
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Choice of Country by the Foreign Born for Phd and Postdoctoral Study : a Sixteen-Country Perspective
Stephan, Paula E. - 2014
country for training. Data are drawn from the GlobSci survey of scientists in sixteen countries working in four fields. We …
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Scellato, Giuseppe - 2014
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the GlobSci survey of authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science working in sixteen countries. Summary evidence suggests that migration plays an important role...
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