讲座信息 | 人际关系与科研资助

讲座题目：Connections and Scientific Grants

时间：2023年3月9日（周四）下午 14:00-15:30

地点：后主楼1722；腾讯会议：587-210-583

主讲人： 胡枫教授，北京科技大学经济管理学院

主持人： 邢春冰教授，中国人民大学农业与农村发展学院，人的发展经济学研究中心

摘要：

While funding is essential for promoting science, little is known about how connections affect allocation of scientific funding resources. In this paper we investigate how connections with a grant review committee member (“panelist”) affect researchers’ chances of being funded by a national scientific funding agency, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Using both hand-collected and administrative data, we find that connections with a panelist lead to an 11% increase in the number of scientific grants awarded to connected researchers and closer connections are associated with a larger likelihood of being funded. Analysis of bibliographic data suggests that connected researchers have fewer publications and lower publication quality than unconnected ones both before and after funding. Overall, our findings suggest that nepotism in scientific funding evaluation may lead to misallocation of research resources at the cost of research quality.