This paper investigates the impact of federal extramural research funding on total expenditures for life sciences … research and development (R&D) at U.S. universities, to determine whether federal R&D funding spurs funding from non …

I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities … responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from … universities had begun to push for more resources from the federal government for research, support for faculty salary and research …

research are important, but are circumscribed by field and by intrinsic relevance. Perhaps the most important implication of … research, namely the proportion of available knowledge that spills over from one scientist to another … for Scientific Information (ISI); the scientific institutions included are the top 110 U.S. research universities; the 12 …

We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the … associated with a 6-15% increase in publications and a 22-26% increase in citation-weighted papers for research teams. For …

Scientific research has come to dominate many American universities. Even with growing external support, increasingly … the costs of scientific research are being funded out of internal university funds. Our paper explains why this is … undergraduate tuition.We find that universities whose own expenditures on research are growing the most rapidly, ceteris paribus …

U.S. universities have experienced a shift in research funding away from federal and towards private industry sources … research outputs. We link person-level grant data from 22 universities to patent and career outcomes (including IRS W-2 records … opposite effects. We conclude that the incentives of private funders to appropriate research outputs have important …

innovation in firms. However, inventions from universities and public research institutes substitute for corporate inventions and … reduce the demand for internal research by corporations, perhaps reflecting downstream competition from startups that …

investigate whether these declines affected the educational and research outcomes of these schools. We present evidence that … declining funding induced public universities to shift toward tuition as their primary source of revenue. Selective research … impacts on expenditures. Public universities outside the research sector had fewer options to replace stagnating state …

research universities. Strikingly, we find that faculty compensation per student taught varies much less across departments … compensation within departments. The prices of faculty activities demonstrate substantial variation across institutions … about whether and, if so, how differences in the cost of faculty affect resource allocation at research universities. We …

mission is the creation and dissemination of knowledge -- the research university. We use the fact that universities follow a …