4 papers
Automation Experiments and Inequality
Seth Benzell, Kyle Myers
An increasingly large number of experiments study the labor productivity effects of automation technologies such as generative algorithms. A popular question in these experiments r…
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…
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…