Teaching Load and Other Determinants of Research Output Among University Faculty

Kanybek Nur-tegin, Sanjay Venugopalan and Jessica Young

The American Economist, 2020, vol. 65, issue 2, 300-311

Abstract: Do faculty who teach more produce less research? We revisit this question with a better measure of research productivity, eschewing simple publication counts in favor of the impact of research measured by Google citations. Using original data, we pose this question in the broader context of other determinants of scholarly productivity. We find that heavier teaching crowds out research. Furthermore, faculty with more teaching duties tend to protect the quantity of their research more than the quality. We also find that faculty rank, promotion, experience, gender, the ability to win grants, and the ranking of the resident school are significant predictors of faculty research output. JEL Classifications : I23, J24

Keywords: research; scholarly output; teaching load; determinants; research impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0569434520930702

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