Replication data for: Climbing atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jeffrey L. Furman; Scott Stern
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Project Citation:
Furman, Jeffrey L., and Stern, Scott. Replication data for: Climbing atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112451V1
Project Description
Summary:
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While cumulative knowledge production is central to growth, little empirical research investigates how institutions shape whether existing knowledge can be exploited to create new knowledge. This paper assesses the impact of a specific institution, a biological resource
center, whose objective is to certify and disseminate knowledge. We disentangle the marginal impact of this institution on cumulative research from the impact of selection, in which the most important discoveries are endogenously linked to research-enhancing institutions. Exploiting exogenous shifts of biomaterials across institutional settings and employing a difference-in-differences approach, we find that effective institutions amplify the cumulative impact of individual scientific discoveries. (JEL D02, D83, I23, O30)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D02 Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
O30 Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
D02 Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
O30 Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Geographic Coverage:
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global
Time Period(s):
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1970 – 2001
Data Type(s):
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other:;
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Collection Notes:
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The dataset chronicles the bibliometric features, including annual Web of Science citations received, by a series of treated articles and control articles, associated with deposits of life science materials at the United States' largest Biological Resource Center (BRC), the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), between 1970-2001. Treated articles are those associated with materials that were (unexpectedly) accessioned into ATCC during this time period. Control articles include Nearest Neighbor articles (those immediately preceding and following treated articles in the journal in which the treated articles were published) and Most-Related Articles (those articles most closely matched in terms of pre-treatment citations among articles published in the same journal and year). Because we observe citations to a scientific publication both before and after BRC deposit (and because we are able to identify a counterfactual estimate of the citation rate that would have occurred if a BRC deposit had not occurred), these data enable idetification of the causal impact of BRC deposit on the pattern of citations to a scientific publication.
Methodology
Data Source:
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author collected data from the Web of Science
Unit(s) of Observation:
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paper-year,
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