Collaboration incentives: Endogenous selection into single and coauthorships by surname initial in economics and management

Many prior studies suggest that default alphabetical ordering of coauthors in economicsconfers disproportionate professional advantages on those with an early surname initialbecause of the greater prominence it gives to the first author. However, these studies do notconsider that authors select into coauthorships according to the incentives identified. Wedevelop a model of endogenous selection into single and coauthorships around the...