TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jacob,Brian
AU  - Lefgren,Lars
TI  - The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13519
PY  - 2007
Y2  - October 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13519
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13519.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Brian Jacob
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
735 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tel: 734-615-6994
Fax: NA
E-Mail: bajacob@umich.edu

Lars Lefgren
Department of Economics
Brigham Young University
130 Faculty Office Bulding
Provo, UT 84602-2363
Tel: (801) 422-5169
E-Mail: l-lefgren@byu.edu
AB  - In this paper, we estimate the impact of receiving an NIH grant on subsequent publications and citations.  Our sample consists of all applications (unsuccessful as well as successful) to the NIH from 1980 to 2000 for postdoctoral training grants (F32s) and standard research grants (R01s).  Both OLS and regression discontinuity estimates show that receipt of either an NIH postdoctoral fellowship or research grant leads to about one additional publication over the next five years.  The estimates represent about 20 and 7 percent increases in research productivity for F32 and R01 recipients respectively. The limited research impact of NIH grants may be explained in part by a model in which the market for research funding is competitive, so that the loss of an NIH grant simply causes researchers to shift to another source of funding.
ER  -