If we plan to collect the talent and ingenuity of the next generation, we must help them succeed from an early age. A comprehensive understanding of how to nurture the creativity and talent of young people could lead to its presence in adulthood, as talent creates opportunities for human development and fulfilment. The media is a powerful industry for constructing, influencing, and ma...

Economists hold an annual talent search in which students from around the world apply to doctoral programs and economics departments. Top economics PhD programs seek candidates with the preparation, aptitude, drive, and creativity to become academic professionals whose research will advance the frontiers of the discipline. Admission committee members must judge students’ potential economic tale...

We analyze ways in which heterogeneity in responsiveness to incentives (“drive”) affects employees’ incentives and firms’ incentive systems in a career concerns model. On the one hand, because more driven agents work harder in response to existing incentives than less driven ones—and therefore pay is increasing in perceived drive—there is a motive to increase effort to signal high drive. These ...

A team of US scientists has shown that a novel form of imaging mass spectrometry (MS) is not only able to analyse both solid and liquid samples, but can even be used to separate the various analytes in those liquid samples. This means that the novel MS technique can perform dual analytic roles: identifying analytes separated by chromatography or electrophoresis, or separating analytes prior to ...