Research Universities and the Public Good book now available
Jason Owen-Smith’s new book offers a unique view of how universities work, what their purpose is, and why they are important.
Federal R&D boosts local economic development
Yulia Chhabra, Margaret C. Levenstein, and IRIS PI Jason Owen-Smith use the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), to estimate the effect of R&D and science spending on local employment. Unlike most fiscal stimuli, the R&D and science portion of ARRA...Measuring the Economic Value of Research Book Published
The new book using IRIS data by IRIS PI Julia Lane and others, Measuring the Economic Value of Research: The Case of Food Safety, will be published December 2017.
American Economic Review paper in the news
There has been a lot of coverage of the IRIS paper in American Economic Review on STEM Training and Early Career Outcomes of Female and Male Graduate Students, including in Nature and Science magazines.
IRIS data shows young women in STEM fields earn up to one-third less than men
“There’s a dramatic difference in how much early career men and women in the sciences are paid,” said Bruce Weinberg, co-author of the study, IRIS Co-PI, and professor of economics at The Ohio State University.
Science paper is in the news
There has been a lot of coverage of the Science paper, including the Washington Post and Nature magazine.