The impact of public research contracts on scientific productivity

César Alonso-Borrego, Antonio Romero-Medina and Rocío Sánchez-Mangas
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Antonio Romero Medina

Applied Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 5, 417-432

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.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1200181

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