Chinese graduate students and U.S. scientific productivity

0392698 - NHÚ 2014 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Gaulé, Patrick - Piacentini, M.
Chinese graduate students and U.S. scientific productivity.
Review of Economics and Statistics. Roč. 95, č. 2 (2013), s. 698-701. ISSN 0034-6535. E-ISSN 1530-9142
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985998
Klíčová slova: graduate students * Chinese immigrants * scientific output
Kód oboru RIV: AH - Ekonomie
Impakt faktor: 2.718, rok: 2013

The migration of young Chinese scientists to undertake graduate studies in U.S. universities is arguably one of the most important recent episodes of skilled migration. Using a new data set covering around 16,000 Ph.D. graduates in 161 U.S. chemistry departments, we show that Chinese students have a scientific output during their thesis that is significantly higher than other students. In fact, conditional on acceptance into the same programs, Chinese students perform about as well as the awardees of the NSF doctoral fellowship program. These results shed new light on the benefits of student migration on scientific productivity of destination countries.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0221476