Economics research is increasingly performed in teams, and team-authored work has a large and increasing impact advantage. This article considers the benefits and costs of this “rise of teams.” Among its benefits, teamwork allows individuals to aggregate knowledge in productive and novel ways. For example, as knowledge accumulates over time, individuals become narrower in their expertise, and teamwork is a natural organizational approach to aggregating expertise and maintaining one’s reach. But teamwork also brings costs. For example, teamwork divides and obscures credit, which is central to the reward system of science. By clouding credit assignment, teamwork can undermine individual career progression and exacerbate issues of bias. In addressing the rise of teamwork, this paper further considers institutional innovations, especially those inspired by the hard sciences, that can help limit the costs teamwork imposes while realizing the benefits.

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研究团队的崛起：经济学的收益和成本

经济学研究越来越多地在团队中进行，团队创作的工作具有巨大且不断增长的影响优势。本文考虑了这种“团队崛起”的收益和成本。团队合作的好处之一是允许个人以富有成效和新颖的方式聚合知识。例如，随着时间的推移，知识积累，个人的专业知识会变得更窄，而团队合作是一种自然的组织方法来聚合专业知识和保持自己的影响力。但团队合作也会带来成本。例如，团队合作会分裂和掩盖信用，而信用是科学奖励制度的核心。通过模糊信用分配，团队合作会破坏个人的职业发展并加剧偏见问题。在解决团队合作的兴起时，本文进一步考虑了制度创新，