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Why is Harvard #1? Governance and the Dominance of US Universities
Mehta, Shailendra - 2012
This paper examines three related puzzles: 1) Why do US universities dominate the global rankings? 2) Within US universities, why is Harvard University usually ranked at the top? 3) While most universities take centuries to acquire a global reputation how have many US universities leapfrogged to...
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Intellectual property rights and the evolution of scientific journals as knowledge platforms
Fehder, Daniel C.; Murray, Fiona; Stern, Scott - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 36 (2014) C, pp. 83-94
downstream demand for knowledge that is initially disclosed through scientific publication in fields where research is generated … and utilized across different institutional settings (i.e., academia versus industry). For scientific discoveries with … knowledge disclosed in a given scientific journal. This paper evaluates the relationship between scientific journal publication …
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Designing dynamic research contests
Benkert, Jean-Michel; Letina, Igor - 2016
This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the...
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Performance responses to competition across skill-levels in rank order tournaments : field evidence and implications for tournament design
Boudreau, Kevin J.; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R. - 2013
Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual data on 2,775 contestants in 755 software algorithm development contests with random assignment. The performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of...
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How well are women represented at the AEA meeting? : a study of the 1985 - 2010 programs
Cunningham, Rosemary T.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012
, economics still lags many other fields. Previous research has documented gender gaps in tenure, promotion and publication, some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548188
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Lessons from the laureates
Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009
This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at … one planned in advance but one that evolved via the marketplace for ideas. -- Nobel economists ; economic thought …
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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …
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Adverse selection and incentives in an early retirement program
Whelan, Kenneth T.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Hallock, Kevin F. - 2011
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population of employees not covered by collective bargaining agreements, historical employee count and...
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When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge : Private Equity in Higher Education
Eaton, Charlie - 2020
This paper studies how private equity buyouts create value in higher education, a sector with opaque product quality and intense government subsidy. With novel data on 88 private equity deals involving 994 schools, we show that buyouts lead to higher tuition and per-student debt. Exploiting loan...
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Making the (letter) grade : the incentive effects of mandatory pass/fail courses
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2022
In Fall 2014, Wellesley College began mandating pass/fail grading for courses taken by first-year, first-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice and performance, using a...
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