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The impact of public research contracts on scientific productivity

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25142
ISSN: 0003-6846
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1200181
UXXI: AR/0000018549
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2017-01-01
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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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Ramon y cajal programme, Brain gain, Research productivity, Government research programmes, Human capital, Policy evaluation, Matching, Matching estimators, Spain, Plan
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Alonso-Borrego, C., Romero-Medina, A. and Sánchez-Mangas, R. (2017). The impact of public research contracts on scientific productivity. Applied Economics, v. 49, n. 5, pp. 417-43
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