Pork Barrel or Barrel of Gold? Examining the performance implications of earmarking in public R&D grants
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Scholars tend to assume that publicly funded R&D projects, which are competitively selected, outperform receive funding through a political selection process. In this paper, we empirically explore assumption, examining the outcomes of 321 projects were by U.S. Department Energy's Hydrogen Program. Between 2003 and 2011, in program could not only means competitive process, but also being earmarked member Congress. We find that, whereas considerably lower peer review evaluation scores than non-earmarked they do consistently underperform terms productivity, spillovers, novelty research- science-based outcomes. Post-hoc analyses provide indications misalignment is driven existence bias reviewers toward projects. Jointly, our findings challenge dominant assumption selected always politically ones setting public grants. way, academics policy makers with richer perspective on advantages liabilities earmarks.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Research Policy
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0048-7333', '1873-7625']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104514