Twenty-five years ago, Ted Chiang wrote a prescient science fiction short that began: “It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, makin...

A new University of Michigan study finds that women are about 28% less likely than men to promote their scientific papers on X (formerly Twitter)—a seemingly minor digital decision that could have big...

The evaluation of innovative projects is an essential task for scientific and business organizations alike. While prior work has focused on the quality of evalu

The study shows a significant gender gap in scholarly self-promotion on Twitter, finding that women are about 28% less likely to promote their own academic papers compared to men, a disparity which is...

We study agency frictions in the US Congress. We examine the long-standing hypothesis that political elites engage in conflict because they fail to internalize the associated costs. We compare the vot...

This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.

I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

The degree of interdisciplinarity in research proposals negatively correlates with funding success across a wide range of research fields.

The time tradeoff (TTO) method is popular in medical decision making for valuing health states. We use it to elicit economists' preferences for publishing in top economic journals and for living with...

I investigate the effect of faculty quality on PhD student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi...

We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 1971 and 2018. Using rest

In many industries trainees often seek careers different from their mentors. For example, many PhD students seek non-academic careers. Anecdotally, me…