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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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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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political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found …
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The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a large scale social experiment being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effects of an earnings supplement (or subsidy) for long-term welfare recipients who find a full-time job and leave income assistance. The supplement is available to single parents who...
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This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...
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We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
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Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via independent policy initiatives in developing countries. In this paper we study a unique approach that pursues both goals at the same time: empowering mothers through tools that also...
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