U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research
Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2004 in the top 202 economics journals, the authors report two associations. First, per-capita research output on a given country increases with the country's per...
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okr-10986-43452021-04-23T14:02:17Z U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research Das, Jishnu Do, Quy-Toan Shaines, Karen Srinivasan, Sowmya ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS ACADEMIC RESEARCH ACCOUNTING AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ARTICLE ARTICLES BUSINESS ECONOMICS CITATION CITATION INDEX CITATION INDICES CITATIONS CIVIL RIGHTS CLASSIFICATION CLASSIFICATIONS COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS DATA QUALITY DEMOCRACY DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTIONS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DISCIPLINES DOCUMENTS DOMAIN ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC STATISTICS ECONOMIC SURVEYS ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS HISTORY ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION ECONOMICS RESEARCH ELASTICITY ENTRY EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS FORMAL ANALYSIS GAME THEORY GDP GDP PER CAPITA GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INCOME INCOMES INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INFORMATION ECONOMICS INSURANCE KNOWLEDGE BASE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR RELATIONS LABOR RESEARCH LABOUR LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMIC POLICY MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL VALUE MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS MATHEMATICS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES OPEN ACCESS OPEN ECONOMIES PAPERS POLITICAL ECONOMY POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS PROBABILITY PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLISHING RANKING SCHEMES REAL GDP RESEARCH CAPACITY RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH OUTPUT RESEARCHER RESEARCHERS SMALL BUSINESS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERTIARY EDUCATION UNIVERSITIES WEALTH WEB Microdata Set Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2004 in the top 202 economics journals, the authors report two associations. First, per-capita research output on a given country increases with the country's per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Regressions controlling for data availability and quality in the country, indicators of governance and the use of English yield an estimated research-GDP elasticity of 0.37; surprisingly, the United States (US) is not an outlier in the production of empirical research. Second, papers written about the US are far more likely to be published in the top five economics journals, even after the quality of research has been partially controlled for through fixed-effects for the authors' institutional affiliations; the estimates suggest that papers on the US are 2.6 percentage points more likely to be published in the top-five journals. This is a large effect because only 1.5 percent of all papers written about countries other than the US are published in the top-five journals. The authors speculate about the interpretations of these facts, and invite further analysis and additions to the public release of the database that accompanies this paper. 2012-03-19T19:14:28Z 2012-03-19T19:14:28Z 2009-12 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20091210112013 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4345 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5152 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS ACADEMIC RESEARCH ACCOUNTING AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ARTICLE ARTICLES BUSINESS ECONOMICS CITATION CITATION INDEX CITATION INDICES CITATIONS CIVIL RIGHTS CLASSIFICATION CLASSIFICATIONS COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS DATA QUALITY DEMOCRACY DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTIONS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DISCIPLINES DOCUMENTS DOMAIN ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMIC POLICIES ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC STATISTICS ECONOMIC SURVEYS ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS HISTORY ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION ECONOMICS RESEARCH ELASTICITY ENTRY EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS FORMAL ANALYSIS GAME THEORY GDP GDP PER CAPITA GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOUSING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INCOME INCOMES INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INFORMATION ECONOMICS INSURANCE KNOWLEDGE BASE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR RELATIONS LABOR RESEARCH LABOUR LITERATURE LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMIC POLICY MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL VALUE MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS MATHEMATICS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES OPEN ACCESS OPEN ECONOMIES PAPERS POLITICAL ECONOMY POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS PROBABILITY PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLISHING RANKING SCHEMES REAL GDP RESEARCH CAPACITY RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH OUTPUT RESEARCHER RESEARCHERS SMALL BUSINESS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERTIARY EDUCATION UNIVERSITIES WEALTH WEB Microdata Set Das, Jishnu Do, Quy-Toan Shaines, Karen Srinivasan, Sowmya U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5152 |
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Using a database of 76,046 empirical
economics papers published between 1985 and 2004 in the top
202 economics journals, the authors report two associations.
First, per-capita research output on a given country
increases with the country's per capita gross domestic
product (GDP). Regressions controlling for data availability
and quality in the country, indicators of governance and the
use of English yield an estimated research-GDP elasticity of
0.37; surprisingly, the United States (US) is not an outlier
in the production of empirical research. Second, papers
written about the US are far more likely to be published in
the top five economics journals, even after the quality of
research has been partially controlled for through
fixed-effects for the authors' institutional
affiliations; the estimates suggest that papers on the US
are 2.6 percentage points more likely to be published in the
top-five journals. This is a large effect because only 1.5
percent of all papers written about countries other than the
US are published in the top-five journals. The authors
speculate about the interpretations of these facts, and
invite further analysis and additions to the public release
of the database that accompanies this paper. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Das, Jishnu Do, Quy-Toan Shaines, Karen Srinivasan, Sowmya |
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Das, Jishnu Do, Quy-Toan Shaines, Karen Srinivasan, Sowmya |
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Das, Jishnu |
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U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research |
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U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research |
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U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research |
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U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research |
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U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research |
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u.s. and them : the geography of academic research |
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2012 |
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