Beau Fly Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 363538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beau Fly Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beau Fly |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES B F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9697-9388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1894 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science
Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas
Science’s changing demographics raise new questions about research team diversity and research outcomes. We study mixed-gender research teams, examining 6.6 million papers published across the medical sciences since 2000 and establishing several core findings. First, the fraction of publications by mixed-gender teams has grown rapidly, yet mixed-gender teams continue to be underrepresented compared to the expectations of a null model. Second, des…
Public use and public funding of science
The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics
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 of teams." Among its benefits, teamwork allows individuals to aggregate knowledge in productive and novel ways. For example, as knowledge accumulates over time, individuals become narrower in their expertise, and teamwork is a natural organizational approach to aggre…
What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and demonstrate impacts on agricultural output, industrial output, labor productivity, energy demand, health, conflict, and economic growth, among other outcomes. By harnessing exogenous variation over time within…
Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact
Making an Impact How big a role do unconventional combinations of existing knowledge play in the impact of a scientific paper? To examine this question, Uzzi et al. (p. 468 ) studied 17.9 million research articles across five decades of the Web of Science, the largest repository of scientific research. Scientific work typically appeared to draw on highly conventional, familiar mixtures of knowledge. The highest-impact papers were not the ones tha…
Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
This paper uses historical fluctuations in temperature within countries to identify its effects on aggregate economic outcomes. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures substantially reduce economic growth in poor countries. Second, higher temperatures may reduce growth rates, not just the level of output. Third, higher temperatures have wide-ranging effects, reducing agricultural output, industrial output, and political stabilit…
Climate Shocks and Exports
This paper uses international trade data to examine the effects of climate shocks on economic activity. At the aggregate level, Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken (2008) (hereafter, DJO) have demonstrated that higher temperatures in a given year reduce the growth rate of GDP per capita, but only in poor countries. The analysis of trade data in this paper builds on that finding, with three principal motivations. First, internat…
Age and Great Invention
Great achievements in knowledge are produced by older innovators today than they were a century ago. Nobel Prize winners and great inventors have become especially unproductive at younger ages. Meanwhile, the early life cycle decline is not offset by increased productivity beyond middle age. The early life cycle dynamics are closely related to age when the PhD was received, and I discuss a theory where knowledge accumulation across generations le…
The Burden of Knowledge and the “Death of the Renaissance Man”: Is Innovation Getting Harder?
This paper investigates a possibly fundamental aspect of technological progress. If knowledge accumulates as technology advances, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational burden. Innovators can compensate through lengthening educational phases and narrowing expertise, but these responses come at the cost of reducing individual innovative capacities, with implications for the organization of innovative activity—…
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates by Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken. Published in volume 99, issue 2, pages 198-204 of American Economic Review, May 2009
Multi-University Research Teams: Shifting Impact, Geography, and Stratification in Science
This paper demonstrates that teamwork in science increasingly spans university boundaries, a dramatic shift in knowledge production that generalizes across virtually all fields of science, engineering, and social science. Moreover, elite universities play a dominant role in this shift. By examining 4.2 million papers published over three decades, we found that multi-university collaborations (i) are the fastest growing type of authorship structur…
The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth
This paper investigates the remarkable extremes of growth experiences within countries and the changes that occur across growth transitions. We find two main results. First, virtually all but the very richest countries experience both growth miracles and failures over substantial periods. Second, growth accelerations and collapses are asymmetric phenomena. Collapses typically feature reduced investment amidst increasing price instability, whereas…
The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge
We have used 19.9 million papers over 5 decades and 2.1 million patents to demonstrate that teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields. Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time. Teams now also produce the exceptionally high-impact research, even where that distinction was…
Chicago Mastery Learning Reading: Mastery Learning Instruction and Assessment in Inner-City Schools
Michael Katims, Beau Fly Jones, Chicago Mastery Learning Reading: Mastery Learning Instruction and Assessment in Inner-City Schools, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 54, No. 3, Successful Schooling Policies, Practices, Programs (Summer, 1985), pp. 369-387
The Post Office and the Community
James Baldwin: The Struggle for Identity
Co-operative Production
Public use and public funding of science
James Baldwin: The Struggle for Identity
Co-operative Production
The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics
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 of teams." Among its benefits, teamwork allows individuals to aggregate knowledge in productive and novel ways. For example, as knowledge accumulates over time, individuals become narrower in their expertise, and teamwork is a natural organizational approach to aggre…
Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science
Co-operative Production
James Baldwin: The Struggle for Identity
The Post Office and the Community
Chicago Mastery Learning Reading: Mastery Learning Instruction and Assessment in Inner-City Schools
Michael Katims, Beau Fly Jones, Chicago Mastery Learning Reading: Mastery Learning Instruction and Assessment in Inner-City Schools, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 54, No. 3, Successful Schooling Policies, Practices, Programs (Summer, 1985), pp. 369-387
The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge
We have used 19.9 million papers over 5 decades and 2.1 million patents to demonstrate that teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields. Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time. Teams now also produce the exceptionally high-impact research, even where that distinction was…
Multi-University Research Teams: Shifting Impact, Geography, and Stratification in Science
This paper demonstrates that teamwork in science increasingly spans university boundaries, a dramatic shift in knowledge production that generalizes across virtually all fields of science, engineering, and social science. Moreover, elite universities play a dominant role in this shift. By examining 4.2 million papers published over three decades, we found that multi-university collaborations (i) are the fastest growing type of authorship structur…
The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth
This paper investigates the remarkable extremes of growth experiences within countries and the changes that occur across growth transitions. We find two main results. First, virtually all but the very richest countries experience both growth miracles and failures over substantial periods. Second, growth accelerations and collapses are asymmetric phenomena. Collapses typically feature reduced investment amidst increasing price instability, whereas…
The Burden of Knowledge and the “Death of the Renaissance Man”: Is Innovation Getting Harder?
This paper investigates a possibly fundamental aspect of technological progress. If knowledge accumulates as technology advances, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational burden. Innovators can compensate through lengthening educational phases and narrowing expertise, but these responses come at the cost of reducing individual innovative capacities, with implications for the organization of innovative activity—…
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates by Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken. Published in volume 99, issue 2, pages 198-204 of American Economic Review, May 2009
Climate Shocks and Exports
This paper uses international trade data to examine the effects of climate shocks on economic activity. At the aggregate level, Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken (2008) (hereafter, DJO) have demonstrated that higher temperatures in a given year reduce the growth rate of GDP per capita, but only in poor countries. The analysis of trade data in this paper builds on that finding, with three principal motivations. First, internat…
Age and Great Invention
Great achievements in knowledge are produced by older innovators today than they were a century ago. Nobel Prize winners and great inventors have become especially unproductive at younger ages. Meanwhile, the early life cycle decline is not offset by increased productivity beyond middle age. The early life cycle dynamics are closely related to age when the PhD was received, and I discuss a theory where knowledge accumulation across generations le…
Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
This paper uses historical fluctuations in temperature within countries to identify its effects on aggregate economic outcomes. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures substantially reduce economic growth in poor countries. Second, higher temperatures may reduce growth rates, not just the level of output. Third, higher temperatures have wide-ranging effects, reducing agricultural output, industrial output, and political stabilit…
Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact
Making an Impact How big a role do unconventional combinations of existing knowledge play in the impact of a scientific paper? To examine this question, Uzzi et al. (p. 468 ) studied 17.9 million research articles across five decades of the Web of Science, the largest repository of scientific research. Scientific work typically appeared to draw on highly conventional, familiar mixtures of knowledge. The highest-impact papers were not the ones tha…
What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and demonstrate impacts on agricultural output, industrial output, labor productivity, energy demand, health, conflict, and economic growth, among other outcomes. By harnessing exogenous variation over time within…
The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics
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 of teams." Among its benefits, teamwork allows individuals to aggregate knowledge in productive and novel ways. For example, as knowledge accumulates over time, individuals become narrower in their expertise, and teamwork is a natural organizational approach to aggre…
Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas
Science’s changing demographics raise new questions about research team diversity and research outcomes. We study mixed-gender research teams, examining 6.6 million papers published across the medical sciences since 2000 and establishing several core findings. First, the fraction of publications by mixed-gender teams has grown rapidly, yet mixed-gender teams continue to be underrepresented compared to the expectations of a null model. Second, des…
Public use and public funding of science
Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science
Economics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (6 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Biology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · History (3 works)