Benjamin F. Jones

About

Benjamin F. Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he also co-directs the Ryan Institute on Complexity. An economist by training, his research focuses on the sources of economic growth in advanced economies, emphasizing innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress. He studies global economic development, including the roles of education, climate, and national leadership in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations. His work has been published in prominent journals such as the American Economic Review, Science, and Nature, and has been profiled in media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and The New Yorker. Professor Jones has served as the senior economist for macroeconomics for the White House Council of Economic Advisers and in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research where he co-directs the Innovation Policy Working Group, a senior fellow of the Institute for Progress, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His academic positions include being the Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategy at Kellogg since 2014, and previously serving as an associate professor and assistant professor at Northwestern University. His professional experience also includes roles…

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Business
• Finance
• Economics
• Gender studies
• Demography
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Marketing

Selected publications

• Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 334 citations

  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, despite their underrepresentation, the publications o…

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• Coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic

  Science · 2021-01-07 · 127 citations

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  Recent, high-quality science is being heard, but unevenly

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• Public use and public funding of science

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2022-07-07 · 119 citations

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  Knowledge of how science is consumed in public domains is essential for understanding the role of science in human society. Here we examine public use and public funding of science by linking tens of millions of scientific publications from all scientific fields to their upstream funding support and downstream public uses across three public domains—government documents, news media and marketplace invention. We find that different public domains draw from various scientific fields in specialized…

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• Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2023-06-01 · 102 citations

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• Chapter 1. A Calculation of the Social Returns to Innovation

  2022-01-01 · 42 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Benjamin Olken

  34 shared

• Brian Uzzi

  McCormick (United States)

  29 shared

• Pierre Azoulay

  26 shared

• Dashun Wang

  Northwestern University

  24 shared

• Javier Miranda

  21 shared

• J. Daniel Kim

  National Bureau of Economic Research

  16 shared

• Yian Yin

  Cornell University

  14 shared

• Stefan Wuchty

  University of Miami

  13 shared

Awards & honors

• L.G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, 2023…
• Sidney J. Levy Award for Excellence in Teaching
• AER: Insights Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Econo…
• Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award
• Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review

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