Publications
 

Money, Time, and Grant Design
with Wei Yang Tham
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming)
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Small Business Innovation Applied to National Needs
with Lauren Lanahan and Evan Johnson
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy (2026), Vol. 5, Eds: Jones and Lerner
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New Facts and Data about Professors and their Research
with Wei Yang Tham, Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Nina Cohodes, Karim Lakhani, Rachel Mural, and Yilun Xu
PLOS ONE (2026), 21 (2), e0340642
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No Free Lunch? Welfare Analysis of Firms Selling Through Expert Intermediaries
with Matt Grennan, Ashley Swanson, and Aaron Chatterji 
Review of Economic Studies (2025), 92, 2537–2577
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How Important is Editorial Gatekeeping? Evidence from Top Biomedical Journals
with Josh Krieger and Ariel Stern
Review of Economics and Statistics (2025), 107 (4), 1159–1168
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Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy
with Lauren Lanahan
American Economic Review (2022), 112 (7), 2393–2423
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Potentially Long-lasting Effects of the Pandemic on Scientists
with Jian Gao, Yian Yin, Karim Lakhani, and Dashun Wang
Nature Communications (2021), 12, 6188
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The Elasticity of Science
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2020), 12 (4), 103–134
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Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists
with Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph Walsh, Karim Lakhani, and Dashun Wang
Nature Human Behaviour (2020), 4, 880–883
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Endogenous Productivity of Demand-induced R&D: Evidence from Pharmaceuticals
with Mark Pauly
RAND Journal of Economics (2019), 50 (3), 591–614
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