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The Impact of Public Research Contracts on Scientific Productivity

Alonso-Borrego, Cesar - 2016

We analyze a competitive research-oriented public program established in Spain, the Ramon y Cajal Program, intended to offer contracts in public research centers to high-quality researchers. We study the effects of the Program on the ex-post scientific productivity of its recipients, relative to...

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Money for something : the links between research funding and innovation

Glennon, Britta; Lane, Julia; Sodhi, Ridhima - 2018

Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend taxpayer money for "something". There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order to do so; less is known about the effectiveness of...

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Workplace diversity : issues and perspectives

Daly, Alfrieda (contributor) - 1998

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Publishing and promotion in economics : the tyranny of the top five

Heckman, James J.; Moktan, Sidharth - 2018

in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …

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Eliminating discrimination in hiring isn't enough firms interested in workplace diversity should consider the post-hiring stage and why some minority employees choose to leave

Alston, Mackenzie - 2023

, and retention of minority employees. Potential solutions include randomizing task assignments and creating inclusive …

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Contractibility and the design of research agreements

Lerner, Joshua; Malmendier, Ulrike - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 214-246

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Innovation in the U.S. Government

Bruce, Joshua R. - 2020

, and NASA, and are largely in physical science and engineering occupations; the scientific expertise of other agencies is … likely to over-emphasize innovations in engineering and physical sciences while under-reporting intramural innovations in …

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Chapter 5. The Economics of Science

Stephan, Paula E. - 2010

This chapter examines the contributions that economists have made to the study of science and the types of contributions the profession is positioned to make in the future. Special emphasis is placed on the public nature of knowledge and characteristics of the reward structure that encourage the...

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NIH Grant Expansion, Ancestral Diversity and Scientific Discovery in Genomics Research

Fu, Wei; Chou, Shin-yi; Wang, Li-San - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the approaching era of genomic medicine, the underrepresentation of minority populations in human genetics and … of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS): whether improved funding opportunity facilitates minority health research, and …-NIH grant expansion contributes to an increase in the inclusion of minority ancestries in GWAS. It also facilitates the …

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Uncertainty and Individual Discretion in Allocating Research Funds

Goldstein, Anna P.; Kearney, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There is a long-standing tradition in public research funding agencies of distributing funds via peer review, which aggregates evaluations of proposed research ideas from a group of external experts. Despite complaints that this process is biased against novel ideas, there is poor understanding...

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