TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bertoni, Marco
AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Checchi, Daniele
AU  - Rocco, Lorenzo
        TI  - Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity
        PY  - 2020/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13637
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13637
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - overconfidence
KW  - competitive research funds
KW  - Italy
        ER  -