%0 Report
        %A Bertoni, Marco
%A Brunello, Giorgio
%A Checchi, Daniele
%A Rocco, Lorenzo
        %T Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13637
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13637
        %X 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.
        %K overconfidence
%K competitive research funds
%K Italy