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Public funding and researcher careers

Public funding and researcher careers: funder portfolios, career-stage composition, and why the funded-vs-unfunded productivity gap is mostly selection, not effect

Bucket Foundation research-atlas working group

Question

Is the productivity gap between funded and unfunded researchers a causal effect of funding, or mostly selection of already-productive researchers into funding?

Role

Directed the study as part of the research-atlas working group.

Division of work

Human

Research direction and review within the working group.

AI

AI-assisted implementation and analysis under working-group direction.

Verification and limitations

Preprint. Peer review has not yet occurred.

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