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Study / 2020
Grant support and doctoral studies: Analysis of the Grant Agency
of the Charles University data2
OCTOBER 2020 VÁCLAV KORBEL
Summary
Only about half of the doctoral students in the Czech Republic finish their studies. Students have both insufficient financial and non-financial support from universities. One way to support students in their research and studies is through grant competitions.
This is the first study in the Czech Republic to study the relationship between grant support of doctoral students and their further studies. Specifically, we study the effect on graduation rate and study length at the Charles University. We analyze the effects for all students aggregately and divided into field sections. The grant agency is divided into field sections based on the field of research (social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine). We use data from the Grant Agency of Charles University from 2010 to 2013. One third to half of the doctoral students apply for grant support during their studies. Only one third of projects are supported.
We match similar students with and without grant support in the analysis. We use matching procedure, which searches for similar students, who received grant support, and students, who applied but did not receive grant support based on their characteristics and their research project characteristics. Our empirical strategy does not guarantee to estimate the causal impact. We interpret our results as a non-causal relationship of grant support on further studies of doctoral students.
2 This study represents the author´s own view and not the official position of the Czech Academy of Sciences´Economics Institute nor the Charles University Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE). The author is grateful to Martin Srholec, Štěpán Jurajda, Daniel Münich, Filip Pertold, Prof. RNDr. Petr Volf, CSc., Prof. RNDr. MUDr. Petr Maršálek, Ph.D. and Bc. Tomáš Šrom for their valuable comments and advice. The author would like to thank the Grant Agency of the Charles University for providing microdata. The study was produced with support from the Czech Academy of Sciences as part of its Center for Research, Development and Innovation Analysis programme (RaDIAC).
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