Episode 97: Ryan Hill and Carolyn Stein on Incentives in Science

Ryan Hill is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Northwestern Kellogg. Carolyn Stein is an Assistant Professor in the Economic Analysis & Policy group at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

The paper discussed in this episode is ‘Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science’.

Papers mentioned in this episode include:

Azoulay, P., Fons-Rosen, C., & Zivin, J. S. G. (2019). Does science advance one funeral at a time?. American Economic Review, 109(8), 2889-2920.

Carmichael, H. L. (1988). Incentives in academics: why is there tenure?. Journal of political Economy, 96(3), 453-472.

Hill, R., & Stein, C. (2025). Scooped! Estimating rewards for priority in science. Journal of Political Economy, 133(3), 793-845.