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Pierre Azoulay finds permanent declines in productivity among collaborators after "superstar" academic scientists die prematurely
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Sarah Turner
Sarah Turner describes the effect of declines in state funding for public universities on educational and research outcomes
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How the Tuskegee Study generated mistrust and thus lowered demand for medical services among black men leading to negative health outcomes - Marcella Alsan
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The Economics of Digitization
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The NBER Economics of Digitization Project, established in 2010 with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, provides a forum for disseminating research...
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The 2020 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Journey Across a Century of Women
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Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a past president of the American...
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Summer Institute 2020 Methods Lectures: Differential Privacy for Economists
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The extent to which individual responses to household surveys are protected from discovery by outside parties depends...