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What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity During the Pandemic?

Barber, Brad M.; Jiang, Wei; Morse, Adair; Puri, Manju; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using a survey of AFA members, we analyze how demographics, time allocation, production mechanisms, and institutional factors affect research production during the pandemic. Consistent with the literature, research productivity falls more for women and faculty with young children. Independently...

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Faculty Deployment in Research Universities

Courant, Paul N. - 2017

Deploying faculty efficiently (or more efficiently) should surely part of any optimizing strategy on the part of a college or university. Basic microeconomics about the "theory of the firm" provide some insight as to how a university would achieve productive efficiency given differences in the...

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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities

Barham, Bradford L. - 2020

-scale, random sample cross-section surveys of nearly 1,500 scientists at the original 52 Land Grant Universities in 2005 and 2015 …

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Standing on Academic Shoulders : Measuring Scientific Influence in Universities

Adams, James D. - 2004

Cross-field citation probabilities appear to be symmetric for mutually citing fields. Scientific influence is asymmetric within fields, and occurs primarily from top institutions to those less highly ranked. Still, there is significant reverse influence on higher-ranked schools. We also find...

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Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Zucker, Lynne G. - 1998

star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm … there is little evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In early industry" formation, star scientists … firm scientists work" in the stars' university laboratories in contrast to America where the stars are more likely to work …

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University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege

Hvide, Hans K. - 2016

National policies take varied approaches to encouraging university-based innovation. This paper studies a natural experiment: the end of the "professor's privilege" in Norway, where university researchers previously enjoyed full rights to their innovations. Upon the reform, Norway moved toward...

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The Education-Innovation Gap

Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ...

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Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

Athey, Susan - 2018

As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech companies - tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists...

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Estimating Students' Valuation for College Experiences

Aucejo, Esteban; French, Jacob; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in-person instruction and on-campus social activities. Quantitative measures of the value of these individual components have been hard to come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we...

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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction : Through Our Classes, Darkly

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

The past half-century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...

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