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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
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A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo; Salehi, Hadi; Md Yunus, Melor; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact …
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Homophily and long-run integration in social networks
Bramoullé, Yann; Currarini, Sergio; Jackson, Matthew O.; … - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 5, pp. 1754-1786
illustrate aspects of the model with an empirical application to data on citations in physics journals. …
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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US
Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
greater homophily is associated with publication in lower impact journals and with fewer citations, even holding fixed the … get published in higher impact journals and receive more citations than others. These findings suggest that diversity in … and citations. …
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Education and Invention
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish...
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The Impact of Journal Weighting Scheme Characteristics on Research Output Measurement in Economics: The New Zealand Case
Anderson, David L.; Tressler, John - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 3 (2012) 3
In this study we test for the ‘power’ or aggressiveness of various journal weighting schemes, especially those based on the recursive adjustment methodology first developed by Liebowitz and Palmer. Using data generated by New Zealand’s academic economists, we provide quantitative measures...
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The Merits of Using Citation-Based Journal Weighting Schemes to Measure Research Performance in Economics: The Case of New Zealand
Anderson, David L.; Tresler, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2010
all citations are deemed to be of equal value, then schemes based on the Liebowitz and Palmer methodology yield …
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The Merits of Using Citations to Measure Research Output in Economics Departments: The New Zealand Case
Anderson, David L.; Tressler, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2011
’s Programme-Based Research Fund (PBRF). Citations were collected for all refereed papers produced by New Zealand’s academic …. These data allowed us to estimate the time lags in economics between publication of an article and the flow of citations; to … time-lags between publication and citing are such that it would be difficult to rely on citations counts to produce a …
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The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research
Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK …
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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?
Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs. Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem. This paper firmly establishes a...
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