The Long-Term Effects of Winning an ERC Grant
Abstract
This paper studies the long-term effects of winning research excellence grants distributed by the European Research Council (ERC), on researcher productivity, scientific impact, and subsequent research funding. Exploiting rankings given by the ERC evaluation panels in a regression discontinuity design setting, we find that these grants help obtain additional funds for winners scoring above the cutoff but does not translate into higher research productivity or impact (except for few fields). Since we track researchers’ publications up to nine years after the grant assignment, we also employ a difference-in-differences strategy. The positive effect on funding accumulation over time is confirmed. Moreover, we find a positive effect on productivity and impact in resource-intensive disciplines such as Medicine, Chemistry, Universe and Earth Sciences, Institutions and Behaviours and Human Mind Studies. We show that these results are attributable to the achievements of the top-ranked applicants within these fields.
About Enkelejda Havari
Enkelejda Havari is an Associate Professor of Economics at IESEG School of Management in Paris and an affiliate of the Lille Economics and Management lab (LEM CNRS-9221) and IFLAME research centre. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Previously, she worked as an Economist at the European Commission, as a Lecturer at Boston University, and as a Post-doctoral scholar at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and completed part of her PhD studies the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF). Her research interests lie in Applied Microeconometrics, Labour Economics, Migration, and Policy Evaluation.
Language
English
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