The Economic Incentive, Quality and Scientific Production of The Higher Education in Mexico

Abstract

The research presented is a descriptive and comparative study of the Academic Profession In The Knowledge-Basic Society (APIKS) survey database, with emphasis only on the national base, which analyzes the perception of both male and female academics in Mexican universities and their opinion regarding the incentive programs for scientific productivity in Mexico, such as the Teacher Performance Incentives Program (PEDPD, for its acronym in Spanish), Teacher Professional Development Program (PRODEP, for its acronym in Spanish), Academic Groups (CA, for its acronym in Spanish) and National Researchers System (SNI, for its acronym in Spanish), from the perspectives of gender, teaching and research quality, for which a sample of 3776 participating academics located in the different higher education subsystems of the Mexican educational system was analyzed.