The authors examine the influence of faculty patenting activity on the rate, quality, and content of public research outputs in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights to account for the dynamics of self-selection into patenting, they find that patenting has a positive effect on the rate of publication of journal articles, but no effect on the quality of these publications.
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