The impact of public research contracts on scientific productivity |
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Authors: | César Alonso-Borrego Antonio Romero-Medina Rocío Sánchez-Mangas |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Getafe, Spain;2. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
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Abstract: | We analyse a competitive research-oriented public programme established in Spain, the Ramon y Cajal Programme, intended to offer contracts in public research centres to high-quality researchers. We study the effects of the programme on the ex post scientific productivity of its recipients, relative to non-granted applicants with comparable curricula at the time of application. The full sample results demonstrate that the programme has a positive and significant effect on the scientific productivity of the recipients, as measured both by the amount of published contribution and by the impact of their publications. Consequently, receiving a contract affects the quantity, but also increases the quality, of the contract recipients’ publications. |
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Keywords: | Ramon y Cajal programme brain gain research productivity government research programmes human capital policy evaluation matching |
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