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- Pierre Azoulay
- MIT Sloan School of Management, 100 Main Street, E62-487, Cambridge, MA 02142, and NBER (email: )
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- Christian Fons-Rosen
- Department of Economics, UC Merced, 5200 N. Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, and CEPR (email: )
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- Joshua S. Graff Zivin
- School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD, D9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, and NBER (email: )
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2019-08-01
- DOI
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- 10.1257/aer.20161574
- 公開者
- American Economic Association
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説明
<jats:p> We examine how the premature death of eminent life scientists alters the vitality of their fields. While the flow of articles by collaborators into affected fields decreases after the death of a star scientist, the flow of articles by non-collaborators increases markedly. This surge in contributions from outsiders draws upon a different scientific corpus and is disproportionately likely to be highly cited. While outsiders appear reluctant to challenge leadership within a field when the star is alive, the loss of a luminary provides an opportunity for fields to evolve in new directions that advance the frontier of knowledge. (JEL I23, O31, O33) </jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- American Economic Review
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American Economic Review 109 (8), 2889-2920, 2019-08-01
American Economic Association