Background: Research rankings based on bibliometrics today dominate governance in
academia and determine careers in universities. Method: Analytical approach to capture the …

Awards are a widespread phenomenon. They cater to the fundamental desire for social
recognition and serve as a valuable incentive to influence behaviour. The study of awards …

A classic thesis is that scientific achievement exhibits a “Matthew effect”: Scientists who have
previously been successful are more likely to succeed again, producing increasing …

Empirical research in economics has begun to explore the idea that workers care about
nonmonetary aspects of work. An increasing number of economic studies using survey and …

We evaluate whether a lack of guidance on how to choose the matching variables used in
the Synthetic Control (SC) estimator creates specification‐searching opportunities. We …

We extend the inference procedure for the synthetic control method in two ways. First, we
propose parametric weights for the p-value that includes the equal weights benchmark of …

This natural field experiment tests the effects of purely symbolic awards on volunteer
retention in a public goods context. The experiment is conducted at Wikipedia, which faces …

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics derived
from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles …

Research summary: This study proposes that CEOs may undertake intensive acquisition
activities to increase their social recognition and status after witnessing their competitors' …

Research summary: Awards are a valuable strategic resource. Motivation theory and the
emerging body of empirical literature suggest that awards can have a significant effect on …