Scientists “pay” for the privilege of being able to publish their research, in the form of lower wages, finds Henry Sauermann of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Michael Roach of Duke. They surveyed 1,900 science and engineering PhD candidates about their career ambitions, and asked them to choose among a variety of hypothetical job offers. All else equal, the median scientist would require an 18% higher salary in order to accept a job that didn’t allow employees to publish their research results. But not every scientist feels this way: 24% of those surveyed valued publishing at zero, and so wouldn’t require extra pay to take a job where their results stayed secret.
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