Hager, Sebastian

Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent - American Economic Review 2024 - 4052-4090

We study how performance metrics affect the allocation of talent by exploiting the introduction of the first citation database in science. For technical reasons, it only covered citations from certain journals and years, creating quasi-random variation: s

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