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Paper tiger? : Chinese science and home bias in citations

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2025

We investigate the phenomenon of home bias in scientific citations, where researchers disproportionately cite work from … their own country. We develop a benchmark for expected citations based on the relative size of countries, defining home bias …

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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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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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Key success drivers in public research grants : funding the seeds of radical innovation in academia?

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

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

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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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Trade-offs in choosing a college major

Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2023

Recent empirical analyses reveal substantial differences in the choices of college majors between demographic and socio-economic groups that are further amplified upon students' adjustment of their educational choices in the course of studies. The best documented and salient are the differences...

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The importance of financial resources for student loan repayment

Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; 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 W.; Zimmermann, … - 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 sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

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College expansion and curriculum choice

Kaganovič, Michail I.; Su, Xuejuan - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...

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