The Funding of Economics Research: Does Social Capital Matter for Success at the National Science Foundation?
利用5年内提交给美国国家科学基金会经济学项目的研究提案数据，分析申请人的社会资本存量是否通过提高获得资助的概率来增加获取研究资源的机会。
Utilizing data on research proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Economics Program over a 5-year period, this paper examines whether the social capital stock of grant applicants enhances their access to research resources by increasing the probability of being awarded a research grant. We estimate latent-variable specifica- tions of the NSF decision to fund a research proposal. Our results show that, given ability, being a National Bureau of Economic Research associate increases the probability of a research proposal being funded. We interpret this as being consistent with the hypothesized causal effects of social capital.