Team production is increasingly common in bench science, because scientists specialize and then combine their skills in … a team. We argue that team production makes it more difficult to identify the quality of a junior scientist, as her … productivity cannot be perfectly distinguished from others in the team. We develop a model of promotions within academic science …

We study team design in the presence of career concerns. In the model, the agents have explicit effort incentives from … principal assigns agents with similar career concerns to a team, whereas with mixed teams, the principal assigns agents with … different career concerns to a team. We find that the characteristics of the available information are important determinants of …