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 …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 …We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain …

The paper emphasizes the transition in Russia and the role institutions played before and during the process. In Russia … underlying reforms. This practice should function as a shock therapy. Hence, the approach should leave no other chance than an … recovered and partly achieved their pre-1991 levels at the end of the last decade. The paper depicts Russia's reform efforts and …