Effects of government spending on research workforce development: evidence from biomedical postdoctoral researchers.

We examine effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers' (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US. We analyze changes in the productivity of postdocs before and after the US government's 1997 decision to increase NIH funding...

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Main Authors: Hyungjo Hur, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Joshua Hawley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4416806?pdf=render