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Was That SMART?

Institutional Financial Incentives and Field of Study

Jeffrey T. Denning and Patrick Turley
Journal of Human Resources, January 2017, 52 (1) 152-186; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.1.0414-6340R1
Jeffrey T. Denning
Jeffrey T. Denning is an assistant professor of economics at Brigham Young University. Patrick Turley is a postdoctoral fellow at the Analytic and Translational Genetic Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Jeffrey T. Denning is an assistant professor of economics at Brigham Young University. Patrick Turley is a postdoctoral fellow at the Analytic and Translational Genetic Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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vol. 52 no. 1 152-186
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https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.1.0414-6340R1
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0022-166X
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  • Received April 1, 2014
  • Accepted August 1, 2015
  • Published online February 16, 2017.

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  1. Jeffrey T. Denning is an assistant professor of economics at Brigham Young University. Patrick Turley is a postdoctoral fellow at the Analytic and Translational Genetic Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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