environments across universities contribute to the differences in productivity of their faculty. We analyze the productivity of …-100th (second-tier). We show that only half of the variation in productivity in the early career years can be attributed to … variability in productivity. The results show that although talent plays a sizeable role in initial career productivity, the …

year period, we study the influence of scientific productivity on the status of scientists' network affiliates. We find … that scientists have greater access to high status affiliates as their productivity improves, and that women receive … greater gains to their networks from productivity than men. Our findings suggest differential returns to productivity by …

career in academic research. We find that academics' scientific productivity and academic network are negatively correlated …