Date of Award

1-1-2019

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Economics

Content Description

1 online resource (viii, 153 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Gerald R Marschke

Committee Members

Michael Sattinger, Byoung Gun Park

Keywords

Aging, Electric Vehicle, Gender Inequality, Innovation, Non-labor Discrimination, State Incentives, Scholarly publishing, Scientific literature, Discrimination in higher education, Sex discrimination in science, Authorship, Hybrid electric cars, Energy policy, Industrial policy

Subject Categories

Economics

Abstract

The first chapter studies how the quantity and quality of research output varies over the career using 5.6 million biomedical science articles published over three decades. We show that controlling for selective attrition reconciles conflicts in a longstanding, interdisciplinary literature. While research quality declines monotonically over the career, this decline is easily overlooked because the highest “ability” authors have the longest publishing careers. Our results have implications for broader questions of human capital accumulation over the career and also for federal research policies that shift funding from late- to early-career researchers – while providing more funding to researchers when they are most creative, these policies must be undertaken carefully because young researchers are less “able” on average.

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