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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023

it. In this manuscript, we study how fertile Chinese research is, as measured by citations. Using publication and … citation data for elite Chemistry researchers, we show that Chinese authored articles receive only half the citations from the … research, Chinese PIs' articles receive 28% fewer citations from US researchers. Our results imply that US researchers do not …

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Key Success Drivers in Public Research Grants: Funding the Seeds of Radical Innovation in Academia?

Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Ines; … - 2016

projects suggests that, voluntarily or involuntarily, the evaluation process in these organizations is biased against radical …

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Endogeneous Matching in University-Industry Collaboration: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK

Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2013

We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative in terms of ability on one side and affinity in the...

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Do Twitter's Science Stars Get a Citation Premium?

Lessmann, Christian; Önder, Ali Sina - 2023

report, pays off in terms of an increased number of citations. To establish a causal relationship, we use the COVID-19 global … difference-in-differences analysis for annual incoming citations of the two groups. We find that the Twitter star status added … about 1.07 extra citations following the breakout of COVID-19 per year per article, corresponding to about 70% of the …

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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015

We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...

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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment

Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd; Suleymanoglu, Utku - 2013

Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich; Zimmermann, Christian - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis

Anelli, Massimo - 2016

I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...

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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion

Kaganovich, Michael; Su, Xuejuan - 2016

We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...

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Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin; Williams, Kevin - 2017

Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign-born peers affect the likelihood American college students...

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