Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227164 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13637
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In 2017 the Italian government established the Fund to Finance Basic Research Activities – FFABR – with the purpose of assigning a 3,000 euros research grant to the most productive applicants among eligible assistant and associate professors. We show that, rather surprisingly, many low-productivity researchers applied to the program while many high-productivity ones did not. Our evidence from both a simple structural model of program participation estimated on registry data and a survey of the eligible population suggests that high-productivity researchers under-estimate their own position in the productivity distribution relative to the assignment threshold, while the opposite holds for low-productivity ones.
Subjects: 
competitive research funds
overconfidence
Italy
JEL: 
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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