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- Title
The Effects of Anti-corruption Campaign on Research Grant Reimbursement: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from China.
- Authors
Tang, Li; Cao, Cong; Lien, Donald; Liu, Xiaoou
- Abstract
Integrity and research ethics are cherished institutions in academic world. Although most societies have rules and codes that govern ethical conducts in research, few studies have provided quantitative evidence on the impacts of these regulations and codes on the behaviors of researchers. In the context of a nationwide anti-corruption campaign in China, this paper evaluates the changes of principal investigators' reimbursement behavior in a leading university when new reimbursement policies were introduced. Utilizing a novel grant dataset and a regression discontinuity design, we find that the new policies lowered PIs' monthly average amount of reimbursement from research grants by 35%, which can be interpreted as a reduction in grant misuse. Following speculations we argue that institutionalizing orchestrated efforts on grant management, payroll systems, and research integrity education is in the right direction toward building China into a true scientific power.
- Subjects
CHINA; REGRESSION discontinuity design; RESEARCH grants; REIMBURSEMENT; PAYROLL software; RESEARCH ethics
- Publication
Science & Engineering Ethics, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 6, p3415
- ISSN
1353-3452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11948-020-00265-7