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There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal? Could simple rules (which are already used by some journals) like the desk rejection of a significant minority of papers, help to streamline the process? At what cost? How...
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The information content of academic citations is subject to debate. This paper views premature death as a tragic "natural experiment," outlining a methodology identifying the "citation death tax" -- the impact of death of productive economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a...
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Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....
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Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its …
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Reputation is critical to foster trust in online marketplaces, yet leaving feedback is a public good that can be under-provided unless buyers are rewarded for it. Signaling theory implies that only high quality sellers would reward buyers for truthful feedback. We explore this scope for...
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Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However …, delegating evaluation power to local leadership could induce influence activities: employees might devote too much effort to …. We find that civil servants do engage in evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, partly in the form …
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collaborated with scientists in China during 2010-2014 with those who collaborated with scientists in other countries outside the U … coincide with a decline in the productivity of scientists with previous collaborations with scientists in China, especially …-investigation NIH funding and U.S.-China collaborations. We also provide suggestive evidence that our findings matter for the aggregate …
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In power-oriented societies, academia may not be immune to the influence of power. This paper studies the power-publication link by applying an event-study strategy to a panel dataset of the publication and biographical information of deans of economics schools in Chinese universities. We find...
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China-born scientists and engineers who conduct their research outside China, the diaspora researchers of our title … connections to China-based researchers and research. Analysis of the Scopus database of English language scientific journal … CiteScore journals. In addition, diaspora researchers helped China advance to the forefront of science through collaboration on …
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The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US …-research experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …
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