How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks

John M. de Figueiredo and Brian Silverman

No 13459, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines academic earmarks and their role in the funding of university research. It provides a summary and review of the evidence on the supply of earmarks by legislators. It then discusses the role of university lobbying for earmarks on the demand side. Finally, the paper examines the impact of earmarks on research quantity and quality.

JEL-codes: H41 O38 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-10
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Published as de Figueiredo, John M., and Brian S. Silverman (2007). “How Do We (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying, and Academic Earmarks,” in Ronald Ehrenberg (ed). Science and the University. (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI.).

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