Research Grants and Independent Scientific Contributions: Evidence from Authorship Position
Research Grants and Independent Scientific Contributions: Evidence from Authorship Position
| Autoři: | Matěj Bajgar Suren Karapetyan |
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| Publikováno v: | IES Working Papers 30/2025 |
| Klíčová slova: | Regression discontinuity design, Research funding, Scientific productivity |
| JEL kódy: | O38, O30, I23 |
| Citace: | Bajgar M., Karapetyan S. (2025): " Research Grants and Independent Scientific Contributions: Evidence from Authorship Position" IES Working Papers 30/2025. IES FSV. Charles University. |
| Abstrakt: | We examine whether competitive research grants generate new research led by the supported principal investigators (PIs), distinguishing publications where the PI made a substantial intellectual contribution (first or last authorship) from all publications. Using data on Czech medical research grants awarded between 2015 and 2019, we apply augmented inverse probability weighting and regression discontinuity designs, comparing funded projects with unfunded projects just below the funding cutoff. Both methods find that grants increase total publications over five years by approximately 2 papers, or 17%. Regression discontinuity estimates further indicate that grants have disproportionately large effects on publications involving substantial intellectual contribution from the PI, increasing first/last-author publications by 1.8 papers, or 40%. Standard outcome measures that ignore authorship position may significantly understate the impact of grants on independent, PI-led scientific output. |
| Ke stažení: | wp_2025_30_bajgar, karapetyan |
