@bfjo

Professor, Kellogg School of Management

kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/jones_benjamin_f.aspx
Joined July 2009
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Announcing a short course! ifp.org/economics-of-ideas/ Pierre Azoulay (@pierre_azoulay) Matt Clancy (@mattsclancy) Janet Freilich Ina Ganguli (@inaganguli) Ben Jones (@bfjo) Chad Jones (@ChadJonesEcon) Kyle Myers (@KRoyMyers) John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen) + me (@heidilwilliams_)

Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Online PhD Short Course | Institute for Progress

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I could not be more excited about @IFP's new partnership with @NSF to help them design and execute experiments on improving scientific grantmaking. NSF has shown tremendous leadership in this area, and we are thrilled to support their efforts.
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📢 Future episodes of @POID_LSE @POID_cast have interviews with @heidilwilliams_ @PMoserEcon @bfjo @ufukakcigit @pierre_azoulay @XJaravel Naomi Lamoreaux buff.ly/3PwkiA7 (Spotify) buff.ly/46te8HT (Apple) @ruveyda_gozen
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The Ryan Institute on Complexity is launched! An investment in innovation research, and in the ‘lab model’ for social science. Huge thanks to the Ryan family for betting on this work. And I’m so excited to work with @dashunwang and @UzziLeadership to take this forward.
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$25 Million Gift Funds Kellogg's First-Of-Its-Kind Research Institute For Complex Problems

The Ryan Institute on Complexity will apply 'complexity science' to study increasingly complex societal, business and market challenges.

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Great piece - and great advice for those looking for high return research directions.
Heidi L. Williams
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How can we accelerate scientific progress? New piece from @mattsclancy @CorreaDan @jddwor @PaulFNiehaus @calebwatney + me in @nature arguing we need more “use-inspired” science policy research. Here are the quick highlights…
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Are ideas are getting harder to find? Join @andreamvaldez, @adamleealter, @dashunwang and I this morning to discuss! Online access to the Atlantic Progress Summit is here: theatlantic.com/live/progres…

Progress Summit 2023 with Derek Thompson

Progress Summit celebrates science, tech, and curiosity; innovators and entrepreneurs explore how joining disciplines leads to breakthroughs like solar panels and AI chatbots.

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Am delighted to share a new piece in the Atlantic on the theme that “immigrants create jobs” (1/1) theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

What Emma Lazarus Got Wrong About Immigration

Immigrants aren’t a call upon America’s charity. They’re far more likely to start a business—and employ other workers—than native-born Americans.

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The notion that immigrants take jobs stands at the heart of economic fears over immigration.  But recent evidence suggests that we need to flip the narrative, because immigrants create more jobs than they take. (2/2)
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The Atlantic piece integrates recent entrepreneurship research (my work with @pierre_azoulay, @jdanielkim, and @jmirandal) and two, great Age of Mass Migration papers from Marco Tabellini and the team of @SMGSequeira, @DrNathanNunn, and Nancy Qian. (3/3)
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A 🧵 about voting rights, judicial elections, and an informed electorate:
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Chicagoans: If you never know what to do in the ballot box when you get to all those judges….
Juliet Sorensen@JulietSorensen126 May 2022
A familiar story for lawyers, law profs, and law students (since you’re treated by your friends and family as an expert from the first day of 1L): injusticewatch.org/interacti…
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When you and your collaborator show up wearing exactly the same thing.  We must be aligned. Or are we missing a novel perspective? Thankfully @dashunwang did not wear a scarf
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Here is the latest magazine issue from the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Lots of discussion around age/ageism in technology and innovation, incl a nice summary of some of my research.
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The U.S. and the world greatly underinvest in R&D. See “Science and Innovation: The Under-fueled Engine of Prosperity,” which reviews the stakes, the latest evidence, and the policy opportunity: kellogg.northwestern.edu/fac…
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Starting soon! Exciting new innovation research is being live streamed at NBER today and tomorrow (12pm-5pm EDT both days). Program: nber.org/conferences/si-2021… Live stream: urldefense.com/v3/__https://…$
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Better live stream link: youtube.com/channel/UC79ELlH…
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Here is a new JEP piece on the rise of research teams, with messages for economics. The short story is: #1 Research teams have big benefits. Coauthored papers have increasing impact advantages, and solo-authored work is increasingly rare – in economics and other fields.
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#3 Deciding who deserves credit on a given team is really hard… and opens a wide door to bias, whether in tenure decisions as in Sarsons et al. (2021) (below), in grant money, or in prizes.
See https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711401

ALT See https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711401

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#4 What can do we do about it? Economics can look to the hard sciences for many lessons. See ideas here: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…

The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics

(Spring 2021) - Economics research is increasingly performed in teams, and team-authored work has a large and increasing impact advantage. This article considers the benefits and costs of this "rise...

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