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GRANTOVÁ PODPORA A DOKTORSKÉ STUDIUM:
ANALÝZA DAT GRANTOVÉ AGENTURY UNIVERZITY KARLOVY IDEA 2020
Our findings show that grant support is positively related to the graduation rate. Students with the grant support graduate more often by 10 to 20 percentage points. It represents an increase from approximately 60% graduation rate to 70–80% graduation rate. The relationship is positive for all field sections but the medicine. However, the relationship is insignificant for all sections with respect to a low number of observations.
Students with grant support finish their studies 3 to 7 months later than similar students without grant support. This relationship cannot be precisely identified in field sections (social and natural sciences) due to limited statistical power except for medical science students who finish their studies with the grant support more than a year later in comparison to not supported students. Supported students also finish their studies within 3–4 years (standard study length) less often by ten percentage points. It represents a decrease from 28% to 18%.
A positive relationship between grant support and doctoral studies suggests that grant support can be an effective way of support. The adverse effect on the length of study needs to be, however, taken into account.
Our study can be understood as a pilot study. With longer time series and more information on the future careers of students, we could investigate other questions. For example: (1) What is the causal impact of grant support on studies of doctoral students? (2) Are there heterogeneous impacts on different types of students (e.g., based on their field of study). (3) Does grant support impact the future careers of doctoral students and their publication record? (4) Does it interact with other forms of student support? (5) Does grant support at other universities in the Czech Republic have a positive impact on students?
Grant schemes supporting research from other providers such as the Grant agency of the Czech Republic, the Technological agency of the Czech republic, the Agency for medical research, grant schemes of ministries and the Operational programmes of the European Union should be evaluated in a similar way.
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