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results shed some light on the potential effects of the internet revolution on knowledge-based industries …
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reputation of the deans and thus have implications on distortions in knowledge production.Institutional subscribers to the NBER …
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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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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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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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interesting and potentially important object of study because the most valuable assets of these firms take the form of knowledge … - particularly knowledge of the needs and interests of clients. We argue that the two most distinctive organizational features of …
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The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still fueled by ignorance in many parts of the world. Filling in knowledge gaps … disease. However, such knowledge is arguably only a necessary condition for targeting these objectives. In this paper, we … describe the extent to which HIV/AIDS knowledge is correlated with less risky sexual behavior. We ask: even when there are no …
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long to train, but also how broadly. A quot;knowledge trapquot; occurs in economies where skilled workers favor broad but … shallow knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps …
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The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …
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We investigate whether information technology can help physicians more efficiently acquire new knowledge in a clinical … model of the influence that information technology has on the acquisition of new medical knowledge. Although the theoretical … medical knowledge when physicians are coping with information overload. Secondly, spillover effects will likely lead to quot …
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