Research Funding and Collaboration

40 Pages Posted: 14 Oct 2020 Last revised: 12 Apr 2023

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Benjamin Davies

Stanford University

Jason Gush

Royal Society of New Zealand

Shaun Hendy

Te Pūnaha Matatini

Adam B. Jaffe

Brandeis University; Motu Economic and Public Policy Research; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: October 2020

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.

Suggested Citation

Davies, Benjamin and Gush, Jason and Hendy, Shaun and Jaffe, Adam B., Research Funding and Collaboration (October 2020). NBER Working Paper No. w27916, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3709606

Benjamin Davies (Contact Author)

Stanford University ( email )

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Jason Gush

Royal Society of New Zealand ( email )

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Shaun Hendy

Te Pūnaha Matatini ( email )

New Zealand

Adam B. Jaffe

Brandeis University ( email )

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