| By: |
Benjamin Davies (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA);
Jason Gush (Royal Society Te Ap?rangi, Wellington, New Zealand);
Shaun C. Hendy (University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand);
Adam B. Jaffe (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, USA, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) |
| Abstract: |
We analyse whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our
analysis combines Scopus publication records with data on applications to the
Marsden Fund, the premiere source of funding for basic research in New
Zealand. On average, and after controlling for observable and unobservable
heterogeneity, applicant pairs were 13.8 percentage points more likely to
co-author in a given year if they co-proposed during the previous ten years
than if they did not. This co-authorship rate was not significantly higher
among funded pairs. However, when we increase post-proposal publication lags
towards the length of a typical award, we find that funding, rather than
participation, promotes co-authorship. |