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Wellcome Trust move to “always open” grant schemes as a form of demand management. Is it known whether removing deadlines *decreases* applications? The article says they don’t know that it will (but it will at lest ease time pressures) but this seems like something economists/psychologists/experts might have studied?? https://wellcome.org/insights/articles/rethinking-future-research-funding Edit: NSF ran a trial which suggests that eliminating deadlines reduces application number https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.352.6284.393