A new study claims to answer an old question. The study’s answer is: probably. The study, done by three young economists, is: “Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?” Pierre Azoulay [pictured here], Christian Fons-Rosen, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, NBER Working Paper No. 21788, December 2015. The authors, at MIT, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the University of […]