conducted with a large sample of active biomedical researchers, we find that--in contrast to funding agencies--scientists … distribution of reviewer scores, they also value the second moment. Further, scientists with the greatest domain expertise on a … scientists' preferences for dissensus would change marginal funding decisions for ten percent of projects worth billions of …

offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of biomedical academic scientists who received research … change using individual-level panel data. We find that the biomedical scientists who eventually choose to found or join a for …