Marini, G;
Meschitti, V;
(2021)
The effect of being awardees for academic careers. ERC and FIRB recipients' outcomes compared to ordinary academics – performances and promotions.
(QSS Working Papers
21-08).
Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education: London, UK.
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Abstract
Some individual funding schemes aim at recognize excellence of early and/or mid-career researchers in order to allow them boost their potential. Some schemes are munificent endowments, assuring autonomy and security. This is the case of one of the European flagship schemes – the European Research Council (ERC). In Italy, a very similar scheme called FIRB has a similar rationale. Both schemes are supposed to make excellence “fly higher”. The paper checks whether such ERC and FIRB recipients are thereafter more productive in terms of quality and influence testing against a control group of Italian academics of similar age, rank and discipline who did not win such individual grants. Results show that ERC recipients ameliorate research performance more than FIRB recipients did, although differences with control group don’t show always a particular additional effect in research outputs when comparing with pre-awarding performances (difference-in-difference tests). On the other hand, we find a strong Matthew effect in promotions, being the credential of having recipient of an ERC or a FIRB per se the strongest predictor of promotion, other achievements being equal. Policy recommendations speculate whether an egalitarian non-stratified higher education system like the Italian one is ideal home for these schemes, and whether the Italian system can afford a national scheme overlapping international ones, considering long-lasting shortage of financial resources and the egalitarian structure of its system.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | The effect of being awardees for academic careers. ERC and FIRB recipients' outcomes compared to ordinary academics – performances and promotions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/qssdqsswp/2108.... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Policy effect; Grants recipients; European Research Council; FIRB; Early and mid-career researchers; Research performance; academic career; promotions |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125043 |
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