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Choice of Country by the Foreign Born for Phd and Postdoctoral Study : a Sixteen-Country Perspective
Stephan, Paula E. - 2014
We analyze the decisions of foreign-born PhD and postdoctoral trainees to come to the United States vs. go to another country for training. Data are drawn from the GlobSci survey of scientists in sixteen countries working in four fields. We find that individuals come to the U.S. to train because...
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Intellectual Returnees as Drivers of Indigenous Innovation : Evidence from the Chinese Photovoltaic Industry
Luo, Siping - 2014
We offer new evidence on indigenous innovation and intellectual returnees by estimating the relationship between patenting by Chinese photovoltaic firms and the presence of corporate leaders with international experience. Our research approach combines data from three sources: the industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062551
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China's “Great Leap Forward” in Science and Engineering
Freeman, Richard B. - 2015
In the past two decades China leaped from bit player in global science and engineering (S&E) to become the world … latecomer to modern science and engineering, China trailed the US and other advanced countries in the quality of its … universities and research but was improving both through the mid-2010s. This paper presents evidence that China's leap benefited …
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Attracting Talent : Location Choices of Foreign-Born Phds in the Us
Grogger, Jeffrey - 2013
We use data from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the post-degree location choices of foreign-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States....
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Scellato, Giuseppe - 2014
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the GlobSci survey of authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science working in sixteen countries. Summary evidence suggests that migration plays an important role...
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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Borghans, Lex - 2010
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...
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Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. And Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
Belley, Philippe - 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...
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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data
Dale, Stacy Berg - 2011
We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...
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Information and College Access : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2012
High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid...
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Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 2012
We present new evidence on the effects of merit aid scholarship programs on residential migration and educational attainment using Census data on 24 to 32 year olds in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010. Eligibility for merit aid programs slightly increases the propensity of state natives to live...
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