Creative careers
Subtitle: the life cycles of Nobel laureates in economics
By: Bruce A. Weinberg, David W. Galenson.
Contributors: Galenson, David W.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11799; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11799.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Economists.; Nobel Prizes.; Creative ability.; Career development.
Description: "This paper studies life cycle creativity among Nobel laureate economists using citation data.  We identify two distinct life cycles of scholarly creativity.  Experimental innovators work inductively, accumulating knowledge from experience.  Conceptual innovators work deductively, applying abstract principles.  We find that conceptual innovators do their most important work earlier in their careers than experimental laureates.  For instance, 75% of the most extreme conceptual laureates published their single best work in the first 10 years of their career, while none of the experimental laureates did.  Thus while experience benefits experimental innovators, newness to a field benefits conceptual innovators"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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