Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 
Author-Name: Aboal, Diego
Author-Email: aboal@cinve.org.uy
Author-workplace-name: Centro de Investigaciones Económicas (CINVE), and 
	 Universidad ORT Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
Author-Name: Tacsir, Ezequiel
Author-Email: tacsir@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, and Universidad de la
	 República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Title: The impact of ex-ante subsidies to researchers on researcher's productivity:
	 Evidence from a developing country  
Abstract: In this paper we perform a short-run (two years after the programme) 
	 impact evaluation of a programme that provides ex-ante subsidies to 
	 researchers in Paraguay. The analysis of the effects of this type of 
	 subsidies, that are prevalent in Latin America, has received little 
	 attention in the literature. Thanks to the availability of data coming 
	 from electronic CVs of applicants we are able to analyse the impact of 
	 the programme in dimensions of researchers' productivity that have been 
	 mostly overlooked previously, such as technical production, own 
	 education, the training of other researchers and other dimensions of the 
	 bibliographic production different to published articles. We also 
	 provide estimations of the impact on quantity and quality of 
	 publications based on more traditional sources of data. We find some 
	 positive impacts of the programme. However, some of the results are not 
	 robust to alternative methods of estimation.
Keywords: Economics of Science, Scientific Subsidies, Policy Impact Evaluation 
Classification-JEL: O30, O38, H43, C21
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20160418
Number: 2016-019
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2016/wp2016-019.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2016019