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Every economist worth his or her salt will tell you that monetary compensation is more efficient than all other forms of rewards. Awards have only received scant attention in the economics literature. Yet, they are ubiquitous.
Frey, Bruno S., Gallus, Jana
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Building research skills in the Macalester economics major [PDF]
Economics majors at Macalester College have won numerous awards for their research papers, and this success has helped them land jobs in finance, consulting, and the nonprofit sector, as well as gain admission to top graduate programs.
Ferderer, J. Peter, Krueger, Gary
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ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song +15 more
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Based on the absence of studies on the symbolic capital of the InformationDocumentation profession, ten priority research areas are presented: the study of the impacts of the prizes, the establishment of a taxonomy of the awards, the analysis of ...
Paula Ochôa, Paulo J. S. Barata
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UK Library and Information Research Group (CILIP) Research Award 2008
The UK Library & Information Research Group (LIRG) research award is designed to promote research in library and information science. The aim of the award is to encourage and facilitate research by practitioners in the field.
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek +13 more
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Gendering Excellence in Technological Research
Gender patterns in technological and engineering research careers were explored in a EU funded 13-country study PROMETEA, conducted 2005-2007, including old and new EU member states, as well as Serbia, Russia and Chile.
Liisa Husu, Paula Koskinen
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Inducement Prizes and Innovation. [PDF]
We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939.
Brunt, Liam, Lerner, Josh, Nicholas, Tom
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Behavioral Mechanism Design: Optimal Contests for Simple Agents [PDF]
Incentives are more likely to elicit desired outcomes when they are designed based on accurate models of agents' strategic behavior. A growing literature, however, suggests that people do not quite behave like standard economic agents in a variety of ...
Ghosh, Arpita, Kleinberg, Robert
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