Research funding and collaboration

We analyze whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our analysis combines Scopus publication records with data on the Marsden Fund, premier source of for basic in New Zealand. use fixed-effect models to within-researcher-pair variation Among pairs who ever co-authored or co-proposed, co-authorship was 13.8 percentage points more likely a given year if they had co-proposed during previous ten years than not. This rate not significantly higher among funded pairs. However, when we increase post-proposal lags towards length typical award, find that funding, rather participation, promotes