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Citations in Economics : Measurement, Uses and Impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the “Top 5” journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends : Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

Lerner, Josh - 2014

To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students...

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The 1995 Nrc Ratings of Doctoral Programs : A Hedonic Model

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Hurst, Peter J. - 2021

We describe how one can use multivariate regression models and data collected by the National Research Council as part of its recent ranking of doctoral programs (Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change) to analyze how measures of program size, faculty seniority,...

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Power and Publications in Chinese Academia

Jia, Ruixue - 2019

reputation of the deans and thus have implications on distortions in knowledge production.Institutional subscribers to the NBER …

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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

Kim, E. Han - 2006

results shed some light on the potential effects of the internet revolution on knowledge-based industries …

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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary …

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Knowledge Elites and Modernization : Evidence from Revolutionary France

Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2016

This paper examines the role of knowledge elites in modernization. At the eve of the French Revolution, in the spring … particularly high in regions that had a thick knowledge elite, measured by subscribers to the famous Encyclopédie in the 1770s …. Historical evidence suggests that this pattern is driven by the spirit of enlightenment of French knowledge elites. Pre …

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Finding Needles in Haystacks : Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth

Agrawal, Ajay - 2018

Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …, and particle physics. We develop a combinatorial-based knowledge production function and embed it in the classic Jones …. This production function is a generalization (and reinterpretation) of the Romer/Jones knowledge production function …

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The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise

Chen, Yiqun - 2019

Do differences in health literacy contribute to the widely documented health-income gradient? In the context of Sweden, we document a strong relationship between exposure to health-related expertise – captured by the presence of a health professional in the family – and health. Exposure to...

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Procuring Knowledge

Maurer, Stephen M.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021

There is growing public interest in alternatives to intellectual property including, but not limited to, prizes and government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be compared within specific creative environments. We...

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