报告题目：‘Piece-rate pay’ for Science
报告嘉宾：史冬波 上海交通大学
报告时间：2024年6月19日(周三) 16:00-17:30
报告地点：中国科学院大学中关村校区教学楼S406
腾讯会议：513-949-131
内容摘要
This paper studies the effects of cash-per-publication policies on the quantity and quality of scientific research. We collect detailed data on cash-per-publication policies together with bibliometric data and research-funding data from four top-ranked research hospitals in China for a sample period that runs from 2009 through 2018. We find that increasing the average cash reward per publication by 10,000 yuan on average increases a doctor’s annual publications by 0.132, about 11.5% of the annual average. This effect is statistically significant, stable over doctors’ career stages, and more pronounced among PhD degree recipients as well as among those who cannot perform surgery to earn income. We also find that higher cash rewards for publications reduce the impact and innovativeness of doctors’ publications. Using a modified regression-discontinuity method, we explore abrupt jumps in these cash incentives at multiple journal impact-factor cutoffs. Although cash rewards per publication increase sharply with journal impact factors, we find that these policies fail to increase doctors’ publications in high-impact journals. Rather, their effects concentrate in publications in low-impact journals, especially in those that are later identified by the Chinese Academy of Science as under suspicion for scientific misconduct. This paper is the first to provide causal evidence indicating that increasing publication-contingent cash rewards leads scientists to increase publication quantity at the expense of research quality.
主讲人简介
史冬波，上海交通大学国际与公共事务学院副教授，上海市晨光学者。史冬波是一位关注创新议题的应用经济学家，研究兴趣集中在两个方面：以科学家与发明人为代表的高技能劳动力市场以及相关激励问题，制度对企业进入与产业布局的影响，相关成果发表在Science等期刊。他分别于2011年和2016年在清华大学获得理学学士学位和管理学博士学位，曾任哈佛大学肯尼迪学院贝尔弗研究中心访问学者。为了多渠道传播与普及创新经济学的研究成果以及促进学术研究工业化，其实验室运营了微信公众号“熊彼特的厨房”。
