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Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science
Fabio Bertolotti, Kyle Myers, Wei Yang Tham
We develop a method to estimate producers' productivity beliefs when output quantities and input prices are unobservable, and we use it to evaluate the market for science. Our mode…
Scientific Talent Leaks Out of Funding Gaps
Wei Yang Tham, Joseph Staudt, Elisabeth Ruth Perlman +1
We study how delays in NIH grant funding affect the career outcomes of research personnel. Using comprehensive earnings and tax records linked to university transaction data along…
Money, Time, and Grant Design
Kyle Myers, Wei Yang Tham
The design of research grants has been hypothesized to be a useful tool for influencing researchers and their science. We test this by conducting two thought experiments in a natio…
New Facts and Data about Professors and their Research
Kyle R. Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Jerry Thursby +5
We introduce a new survey of professors at roughly 150 of the most research-intensive institutions of higher education in the US. We document seven new features of how research-act…
Quantifying the Immediate Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists
Kyle R. Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin +7
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly disrupted the scientific enterprise, but we lack empirical evidence on the nature and magnitude of these disruptions. Here we report the resul…