Benjamin F Jones

Biographic Data

ID3960656
NAMEBenjamin F Jones
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin F
FAMILY NAMEJones
SIGNATUREJONES B F
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1942
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics

    Open AccessBeau Fly Jones, Benjamin F JonesARTICLEThe Journal of Economic…2021Cited by: 4References: 8

    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

    Melissa Dell, Beau Fly Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Literature2014References: 12

    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…

  • Climate Shocks and Exports

    Beau Fly Jones, Benjamin F Jones et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2010

    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

    Beau Fly Jones, Benjamin F JonesARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2010

    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?

    Beau Fly Jones, Benjamin F JonesARTICLEThe Review of Economic Studies2009

    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

    Melissa Dell, Beau Fly Jones et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2009

    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

    Open AccessBeau Fly Jones, Benjamin F Jones et al.ARTICLEScience2008

    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

    Beau Fly Jones, Benjamin F Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2008

    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

    Open AccessStefan Wuchty, Beau Fly Jones et al.ARTICLEScience2007

    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…

  • Eye Hazards in Industry

    Benjamin Jones, Benjamin F JonesARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1942

    Eye Hazards in Industry Benjamin F. Jones CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.32.6.661-a Published Online: August 29, 2011