Science's changing demographics raise new questions about research team diversity and
research outcomes. We study mixed-gender research teams, examining 6.6 million papers …

Changes in cognition, affect, and brain function combine to promote a shift in the nature of
mentation in older adulthood, favoring exploitation of prior knowledge over exploratory …

This is the first comprehensive overview of the'science of science,'an emerging
interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern …

We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States,
focusing on the role of inventive ability (“nature”) versus environment (“nurture”). Using …

Many observers, and many investors, believe that young people are especially likely to
produce the most successful new firms. Integrating administrative data on firms, workers …

We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct
productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To …

We estimate the effect of changes in demographic structure on long-term trends of key
macroeconomic variables using a panel VAR for 21 OECD economies from 1970–2014. The …

Teamwork is one of the most prominent features in modern science. It is now well
understood that team size is an important factor that affects the creativity of the team …

Elderly individuals exhibit wide disparities in their sources of income. For those in the bottom
half of the income distribution, Social Security is the most important source of support; …

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first
truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model …