Facebook could be the solution about how to get a job, at least according to this little research paper.

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This was actually research done by the paper itself for which we should perhaps be thankful: that any paper still does this these days.

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The National Bureau of Economic Research paper, updated earlier this year, categorized hospitals by the degree of payment cuts (small, moderate, or large), then tracked actual patient outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries treated at these hospitals for heart attacks over an 11-year period.

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This concept was applied to online products in an Harvard Business School research paper that looked at search features.

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Bill Martin, professor of the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge, has made this argument very forcefully, in a paper published in the summer.

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This is the conclusion of Richard Posner and Tomas Philipson in a 1999 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Since the number of other works any paper can cite is limited, this is a good measure of the quality of U.S. research.

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Work on the project is so far confined to a research paper stemming from experiments with an iPhone, although it's easy to see this spreading to other platforms and real products before too long.

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