Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Benjamin Davies
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin	
Author-X-Name-Last: Davies
Author-Email: bldavies@stanford.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Author-Name: Jason Gush
Author-X-Name-First: Jason 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gush
Author-Email: jason.gush@royalsociety.org.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: Royal Society Te Ap?rangi, Wellington, New Zealand
Author-Name: Shaun C. Hendy
Author-X-Name-First: Shaun C.	
Author-X-Name-Last: Hendy
Author-Email: shaun.hendy@auckland.ac.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Author-Name: Adam B. Jaffe
Author-X-Name-First: Adam B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jaffe
Author-Email: adam.jaffe@motu.org.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: 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
Title: Research Funding and Collaboration.
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.
Length: 39 pages
Creation-Date:  2020-10
File-URL: https://motu-www.motu.org.nz/wpapers/20_12.pdf
Number: 20_12
Classification-JEL: O31; O38
Keywords: co-authorship; Marsden Fund; science funding; scientific collaboration 
Handle: RePEc:mtu:wpaper:20_12