Reply to “Research incentives and research output”: a caution on quantity incentives and the use of economic models for higher education policy
Abstract
Using an economic model of academic behaviour, Jorgensenn and Hanssen (Higher Education, 76, 1029–1049, 2018) find that a research incentive based on pages of output would not compromise research quality. Given that quantity is more easily observable, they suggest that such an incentive may have merit as an actual policy. This finding of the economic modelling exercise is shown to rest on an inadequate representation of the policy problem: once...
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Reply to “Research incentives and research output”: a caution on quantity incentives and the use of economic models for higher education policy
Published Date
Apr 30, 2019
Journal
Volume
78
Issue
6
Pages
1129 - 1138
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