Ben Jones

Professor, Kellogg School of Management

[Heidi L. Williams @heidilwilliams_]

Announcing a short course! https://t.co/RGr3POzk1d

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_)

[Caleb Watney @calebwatney]

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.

[John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen]

📢 Future episodes of @POID_LSE @POID_cast have interviews with @heidilwilliams_ @PMoserEcon @bfjo @ufukakcigit @pierre_azoulay @XJaravel Naomi Lamoreaux
https://t.co/TdVd4vpZbT (Spotify) https://t.co/4YF43UhiGT (Apple) @ruveyda_gozen

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

https://t.co/RQXJ12yiAz

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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.

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

Great piece - and great advice for those looking for high return research directions.

[Heidi L. Williams @heidilwilliams_]

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…

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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:
https://t.co/U51tYbZm35

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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)

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

Am delighted to share a new piece in the Atlantic on the theme that “immigrants create jobs” (1/1)

https://t.co/OzzFJIixEN

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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)

[Juliet Sorensen @JulietSorensen1]

A 🧵 about voting rights, judicial elections, and an informed electorate:

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

Chicagoans: If you never know what to do in the ballot box when you get to all those judges….

[Juliet Sorensen @JulietSorensen1]

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): https://t.co/ek9E76fAk4

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

@RyanReedHill We are so excited you are joining us!

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

@Afinetheorem @open_phil A great opportunity for researchers interested in innovation. See NBER page here: https://t.co/ZlEW7mMTM4
Please share with PhD students and junior scholars!
A big thank you to @open_phil for making this possible.

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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.

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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: https://t.co/e7a5ZQqV83

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

Better live stream link:
https://t.co/dBiPO7hKtO

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

Starting soon! Exciting new innovation research is being live streamed at NBER today and tomorrow (12pm-5pm EDT both days).
Program:
https://t.co/xWNlISf7na
Live stream:
https://t.co/CA1ZYMJFiK$

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

#4 What can do we do about it? Economics can look to the hard sciences for many lessons. See ideas here:
https://t.co/6erdS4p2PE

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

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.

[Ben Jones @bfjo]

#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.