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Gender gaps and scientific productivity in middle-income countries : evidence from Mexico : prepared for the Institutions for Development Department

Rivera León, Lorena; Mairesse, Jacques; Cowan, Robin A. - 2017

This paper provides evidence of the existence and determinants of the publication productivity gender gap in Mexico at the individual level, and its consequences for the Mexican scientific system and productivity at both the individual discipline and the aggregate levels. The paper specifies and...

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The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality: Theory and evidence from a technical university

BIANCHINI, Stefano; LISSONI, Francesco; PEZZONI, Michele; … - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2014

cycle effects on incentives. Propositions from the model are tested against teaching evaluation data from a mid …

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Endogenous dynamic academic research culture

Jellal, Mohamed; Faria, Joao; Elaoufi, Noureddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper models a dynamic scholar’s allocation of time between academia and professional activities outside academia, given the academic labor market and social interactions. The model shows how particularly in less developed countries business and political networks may have large negative...

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Career progress in centralized academic systems: Social capital and institutions in France and Italy

Pezzoni, Michele; Sterzi, Valerio; Lissoni, Francesco - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 4, pp. 704-719

We analyze the role of social capital in academic careers. We distinguish between ties with reputed scientists and laboratories (scientific and technical human capital) and ties with influential actors with respect to recruitment/promotion decisions (political capital). We use institution-wise...

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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023

it. In this manuscript, we study how fertile Chinese research is, as measured by citations. Using publication and … citation data for elite Chemistry researchers, we show that Chinese authored articles receive only half the citations from the … research, Chinese PIs' articles receive 28% fewer citations from US researchers. Our results imply that US researchers do not …

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How patent rights affect university science

Bergé, Laurent R.; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin - 2022

How do intellectual property rights influence academic science? We investigate the consequences of the introduction of software patents in the U.S. on the publications of university researchers in the field of computer science. Difference-in-difference estimations reveal that software scientists...

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Academic Rankings and Research Governance

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010

Academic rankings today are the backbone of research governance, which seem to fit the aims of "new public management" on the one side and the idea of the "republic of science" on the other side. Nevertheless rankings recently came under scrutiny. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of...

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Academic rankings and research governance

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

Academic rankings today are the backbone of research governance, which seem to fit the aims of “new public management” on the one side and the idea of the “republic of science” on the other side. Nevertheless rankings recently came under scrutiny. We discuss advantages and disadvantages...

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Career progress in centralized academic systems: social capital and institutions in France and Italy

Pezzoni, Michele; Sterzi, Valerio; Lissoni, Francesco - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2009

Notions of social capital have loomed large in the literature on academic careers, but it has proved difficult to disentangle the various benefits social capital bring to individual scientists. Besides, most of the relevant literature is quite US-centric and provide little clues on how the...

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Child mental health and educational attainment : multiple observers and the measurement error problem

Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2011 - This version: July 15, 2011

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...

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