We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge … frontier causing a sudden release of previously hidden research. We report evidence that team size increased disproportionately …

and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research … governance project. Each of the papers represents state-of-the-art research in an important area of corporate governance research …

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify … author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find …