The funding of economics research: Does social capital matter for success at the national science foundation?

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 245-252

  Feinberg, Robert M ^a   Price, Gregory N ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1842481960     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465304323023787     Document Type: Article

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