INSTITUTO MILENIO IMPERFECCIONES DE MERCADO Y POLÍTICA PÚBLICAS

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«The impact of public research contracts on scientific productivity»

We analyze a competitive research-oriented public program established in Spain, the Ramon y Cajal Program, intended to o¤er contracts in public research centers to high-quality researchers. We study the e¤ects of the Program on the ex-post scienti…c productivity of its recipients, relative to unsuccessful applicants with comparable curricula at the time of application. The full sample results demonstrate that the Program has a positive and signi…cant e¤ect on the scienti…c impact of the recipients, as measured by the average and the maximum impact factors, but the e¤ect on the number of published papers is not signi cant. Consequently, receiving a contract does not signi…cantly a¤ect the quantity, but increases the quality, of the contract recipients’publications. This result is primarily driven by the particular relevance of experimental sciences in the Program.

Departamento de Economía Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Lugar:

Room 23, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile ( Domeyko 2338, second floor, Santiago)

Expositor:

Antonio Romero-Medina

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