Where do I stand? Assessing researchers’ beliefs about their productivity

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi and Lorenzo Rocco

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol. 185, issue C, 61-80

Abstract: In 2017 the Italian government established the Fund to Finance Basic Research Activities – FFABR – with the purpose of assigning a 3,000-euro research grant to the most productive applicants among eligible assistant and associate professors. We show that many low-productivity researchers applied to the program while many high-productivity ones did not. Our evidence from both a simple structural model of program participation estimated on registry data, and a survey of the eligible population suggests that high-productivity researchers under-estimate their own position in the productivity distribution relative to the assignment threshold, while the opposite holds for low-productivity ones.

Keywords: Researchers’ productivity; Beliefs; Economics; Ranking; Funding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D91 H5 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.025

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