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| Title: | Boosting scientific research : evidence from a public program |
| Author(s): | Alonso-Borrego, César [alonso1]
Romero-Medina, Antonio [aromero]
Sánchez Mangas, Rocío
Triossi, Matteo |
| Publisher: | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía |
| Issued date: | Jul-2012 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10016/14956 |
| Abstract: | We analyze the design of a unique Spanish public program aimed at recruiting high quality researchers in public research centers: the Ramón y Cajal Program. We claim that, after a number of calls, the program design changed in response to agents' needs. Exploiting data on applications and candidates we find that the new program design led to significant changes in the probability of being awarded with a contract. In particular, opportunities for candidates without attachment to the system were equalized. |
| Sponsor: | We thank the Subdirección General de Formación y Movilidad del Personal Investigador (Spanish Office of Training and Mobility of Researchers) for providing the raw data, and Miguel Benavente for help in data handling. Research funding from Ministry of Education, Grant Nos. ECO2009-11165 (Alonso-Borrego), ECO2011-25330 (Romero-Medina and Triossi) and ECO2009-10287 (Sánchez-Mangas) is acknowledged. |
| Serie / Nº.: | UC3M Working papers. Economics
12-23 |
| Keywords: | Brain gain
Government research programs
Human capital
Differences in differences |
| JEL Classification: | O38
D78
C21
C78 |
| Appears in Collections: | Economists Online
DE - Working Papers. Economics. WE
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