Estimates of the Returns to Quality and Coauthorship in Economic Academia

Raymond D Sauer

Journal of Political Economy, 1988, vol. 96, issue 4, 855-66

Abstract: Salaries of academic economists are studied to determine if individuals receive differential returns to publishing articles of varying quality and to coauthored versus single-authored articles. Estimates based on detailed data and a flexible nonlinear least-squares procedure indicate that substantial returns to quality exist and that an individual's return from a coauthored paper with n authors is approximately 1/n times that of a single-authored paper. Copyright 1988 by University of Chicago Press.

Date: 1988
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