The Russian Excellence Initiative for Higher Education: An Econometric Evaluation of Short-term Results

Agasisti, Tommaso; Шибанова, Екатерина; Platonova, Daria; Lisyutkin, Mikhail

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3272809

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“…In the first two years of Project 5-100, universities outperform their own trend and the general trend (taking into account the control group).In addition, participating universities increased the number of publications per capita in high-quality journals. Agasisti et al (2018) use data about average entry exam scores, students, R&D expenditure, regional GDP per capita and other factors to estimate the effect of Project 5-100 on university efficiency. They find positive effects both on the productivity and on the efficiency of the participating universities.…”

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The Russian University Excellence Initiative: Is It Really Excellence that Is Promoted?

2019

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We estimate the effect of the Russian University excellence program (Project 5-100) initiated by the Government in 2013 on research performance of top Russian universities which received, on a competitive basis, substantial financial support within this program. To do so we use an econometric analysis of longitudinal data applying a linear growth model with mixed effects, with different characteristics of research output as dependent variables. We demonstrate that there is a significant positive effect of Project 5-100 which appeared from the very first years of its implementationthat is, the universities receiving financial support demonstrate a substantial, steady increase in publications both measured in total numbers and per capita when compared to universities from the control group. An analysis of the structure of publication output allows us to demonstrate that not only quantitative but also qualitative growth has taken place, although the impact of Project 5-100 on quality is heterogeneous across universities and disciplines. Finally, we examine to what extent the change in the structure of research output may be attributed to changes in research collaboration patterns.

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Section: The Russian Casementioning

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The Russian University Excellence Initiative: Is It Really Excellence that Is Promoted?

2019

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“…Aptly named, excellence initiatives push higher education systems to boost research performance through selection and a greater concentration of resources (Hazelkorn, 2015;Salmi, 2016). They have a well-documented positive impact on the volume of publications among funded universities, as in the case of South Korea (Shin, 2009), China (Zhang et al, 2013), Russia (Agasisti et al, 2018;Matveeva et al, 2021), and Germany (Civera et al, 2020). Along with this growth, co-authored publications and multiple affiliations of a single author increased simultaneously (Hottenrott et al, 2021;Matveeva et al, 2021), while spillover effects are observed among non-participants (i.e., those HEIs not selected to be part of an excellence initiative) in Germany (Esterhazy, 2018), Taiwan (Fu et al, 2020), Russia (Lovakov et al, 2021), and China (Zhang et al, 2013).…”

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In pursuit of excellence: a historical investigation of scientific production in Indonesia’s higher education system, 1990–2020

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In its pursuit of global university rankings, Indonesia introduced a series of higher education policies, one in 2014 to grant autonomy to a select group of universities, and another in 2017 to tie financial and promotional incentives to scientific publications for all researchers. To examine scientific productivity surrounding these policies, we use bibliometric data from Scopus spanning three decades from 1990 to 2020. We investigate the patterns of publication and collaboration and analyze them across journal quartiles, academic fields, and researcher cohorts. Our findings reveal that publications increased dramatically for both autonomous and non-autonomous higher education institutions after 2014. Single-university authorship was common practice and skewed publication quality towards Q3 and Q4 journals, while co-authorships with foreign organizations pulled the shift towards Q1 journals consistently across all fields. New researchers starting in 2014 published fewer Q1 and more Q3 and Q4 publications than the earlier cohort. We highlight policy implications on the need for a balance between publication quantity and quality and call on Indonesian policymakers to introduce holistic higher education reforms rather than introducing reforms that focus on the performance of the university for ranking purposes.

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“…Knowledge transfer is the total income from grants obtained for applied research (from non-public sources) carried out by the university. In the Russian context, this variable is a good proxy for the intensity of cooperation between universities and industry (Agasisti et. al., 2018).…”

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Do Merger Policies Increase University Efficiency? Evidence From A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

2020

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This paper studies the effect of merger policies in Russia on university efficiency. We consider the non-voluntary merger policy conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science based on university performance indicators. First, the efficiency scores of universities are estimated using a bootstrapped DEA non-parametric technique. The efficiency scores were evaluated for universities that were merged and for a control group formed through propensity score matching before and after the implementation of the policy. Then, a fuzzy regression discontinuity design was implemented in order to reveal the causal impact of mergers on efficiency levels. We find a positive, statistically significant effect of merger policy on university efficiency. The results of the analysis suggest that merged universities experience greater efficiency gains (or smaller efficiency declines) after mergers.

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The Russian Excellence Initiative for Higher Education: An Econometric Evaluation of Short-term Results

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

The Russian University Excellence Initiative: Is It Really Excellence that Is Promoted?

The Russian University Excellence Initiative: Is It Really Excellence that Is Promoted?

In pursuit of excellence: a historical investigation of scientific production in Indonesia’s higher education system, 1990–2020

Do Merger Policies Increase University Efficiency? Evidence From A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

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