Paula Stephan is Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy studies, Georgia State University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests focus on the careers of scientists
and engineers and the process by which knowledge moves across institutional
boundaries in the economy. Stephan's research has been supported by
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Exxon
Education Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and the U.S. Department of Labor. She has served
on several National Research Council committees including the committee
on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in the Careers
of Life Scientists, Committee on Methods of Forecasting Demand and Supply
of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, and the Committee to Assess the
Portfolio of the Science Resources Studies Division of NSF. She is a
regular participant in the National Bureau of Economic Research's meetings
in Higher Education and has testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee
on Basic Science. She currently is serving a three year term as a member
of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Advisory Committee, National
Science Foundation, and is a member of the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, NIH. She co-directs (with Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby) the Atlanta Consortium for Entrepreneurial Research, supported by the Kauffman Foundation and the Georgia Research Alliance.
Dr. Stephan graduated
from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) with a B.A. in Economics and
earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
She has published numerous articles in journals such as The American
Economic Review, Science, The Journal of Economic Literature,
Economic Inquiry and Social Studies of Science. Stephan
coauthored with Sharon Levin Striking the Mother Lode in Science,
published by Oxford University Press, 1992. The book was reviewed in
Science, Chemical and Engineering News, Journal of
Economic Literature, The Southern Economic Journal and The
Journal of Higher Education. Her research on the careers of scientists
has been the focus of articles in The Economist, Science
and The Scientist. Stephan is a frequent presenter at meetings
such as The American Economic Association, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for the Social Studies
of Science. Stephan reviews regularly for the National Science Foundation
and a number of academic journals including The American Economic
Review, The American Sociological Review, Economic Inquiry,
The Journal of Political Economy, and The Journal of Human
Resources.
Dr. Stephan has
lectured extensively in Europe. She was a visiting scholar at the Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany, intermittently during
the period 1992-1995.
