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Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China
Buntaine, Mark T.; Greenstone, Michael; He, Guojun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of assigning firms to …
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Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow : The Cases of Korea and Taiwan
Hu, Albert G.Z. - 2001
This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …
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The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science
Jia, Ruixue; Roberts, Margaret E.; Wang, Ye; Yang, Eddie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Power and Publications in Chinese Academia
Jia, Ruixue - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480159
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The Contribution of Chinese Diaspora Researchers to Scientific Publications and China's “Great Leap Forward” in Global Science
Xie, Qingnan - 2020
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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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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The Production and Consumption of Social Media
Filippas, Apostolos; Horton, John J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We model social media as collections of users producing and consuming content. Users value consuming content, but doing so uses up their scarce attention, and hence they prefer content produced by more able users. Users also value receiving attention, creating the incentive to attract an...
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Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Partisanship on Asset Prices
Bianchi, Francesco; Kung, Howard; Cram, Roberto Gómez - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure the individual and collective viewpoints of US Congress members on various economic policies by scraping their Twitter accounts. Tweets that criticize (support) a particular company are associated with a significant negative (positive) stock price reaction in a narrow time window...
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Digital Addiction
Allcott, Hunt; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Song, Lena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are...
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Media and Social Capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
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