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Matthew : Effect or Fable?
Azoulay, Pierre - 2014
In a market context, a status effect occurs when actors are accorded differential recognition for their efforts depending on their location in a status ordering, holding constant the quality of these efforts. In practice, because it is very difficult to measure quality, this ceteris paribus...
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Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History
Aizenman, Joshua - 2006
leader in basic research. Our study is based on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global …
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Inventing Prizes : A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy
Khan, B. Zorina - 2015
Prizes for innovations are currently experiencing a renaissance, following their marked decline during the nineteenth century. However, Daguerre's “patent buyout,” the longitude prize, inducement prizes for butter substitutes and billiard balls, the activities of the Royal Society of Arts...
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The Impact of Postdoctoral Fellowships on a Future Independent Career in Federally Funded Biomedical Research
Heggeness, Misty - 2018
The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is a major research training program … administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with funds appropriated each year by Congress. This study examines the … receiving subsequent NIH research awards from 6.3 to 8.2 percentage points and of achieving an NIH-funded R01 award, an …
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"Hall of Fame" Voting : The Econometric Society
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Schmidt, Peter - 2021
We examine the determinants of election as Fellow of the Econometric Society, an example of voting within a group to confer honor on some members and perhaps achieve additional status for the entire group. Using data from annual elections from 1990-2000, we find that objective measures of...
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Creative Careers : The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics
Weinberg, Bruce A.; Galenson, David W. - 2021
This paper studies life cycle creativity among Nobel laureate economists. We identify two distinct life cycles of scholarly creativity. Experimental innovators work inductively, accumulating knowledge from experience. Conceptual innovators work deductively, applying abstract principles. We find...
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Prizes and Productivity : How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output
Borjas, George J. - 2015
Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes are designed to encourage it. But how does winning a prestigious prize affect future output? We compare the productivity of Fields medalists (winners of the top mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The...
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The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Levitt, Steven D. - 2016
We test the effect of performance-based incentives on educational achievement in a low-performing school district using a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an achievement standard based on multiple measures of performance...
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training
Dave, Dhaval - 2011
welfare: vocational education and training. The results indicate that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full … college enrollment), which we replicated in this study, have been offset by increases in vocational education and training …
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Behind the Gate Experiment : Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs … throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we … examine the validity of such motivations and find that training does not have strong effects (in either relative or absolute …
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