U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research

Das, Jishnu; Do, Quy-Toan; Shaines, Karen; Srinivasan, Sowmya

dc.creator	Das, Jishnu
dc.creator	Do, Quy-Toan
dc.creator	Shaines, Karen
dc.creator	Srinivasan, Sowmya
dc.date	2012-03-19T19:14:28Z
dc.date	2012-03-19T19:14:28Z
dc.date	2009-12
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-18T19:39:11Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-18T19:39:11Z
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dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4345
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249845
dc.description	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.
dc.language	English
dc.relation	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5152
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
dc.subject	ACADEMIC RESEARCH
dc.subject	ACCOUNTING
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
dc.subject	ARTICLE
dc.subject	ARTICLES
dc.subject	BUSINESS ECONOMICS
dc.subject	CITATION
dc.subject	CITATION INDEX
dc.subject	CITATION INDICES
dc.subject	CITATIONS
dc.subject	CIVIL RIGHTS
dc.subject	CLASSIFICATION
dc.subject	CLASSIFICATIONS
dc.subject	COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
dc.subject	DATA QUALITY
dc.subject	DEMOCRACY
dc.subject	DESCRIPTION
dc.subject	DESCRIPTIONS
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject	DISCIPLINES
dc.subject	DOCUMENTS
dc.subject	DOMAIN
dc.subject	ECONOMETRICS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	ECONOMIC HISTORY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC POLICIES
dc.subject	ECONOMIC RESEARCH
dc.subject	ECONOMIC STATISTICS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC SURVEYS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC THEORY
dc.subject	ECONOMICS
dc.subject	ECONOMICS HISTORY
dc.subject	ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
dc.subject	ECONOMICS RESEARCH
dc.subject	ELASTICITY
dc.subject	ENTRY
dc.subject	EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
dc.subject	FORMAL ANALYSIS
dc.subject	GAME THEORY
dc.subject	GDP
dc.subject	GDP PER CAPITA
dc.subject	GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
dc.subject	HOUSING
dc.subject	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	HUMAN RESOURCES
dc.subject	INCOME
dc.subject	INCOMES
dc.subject	INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
dc.subject	INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
dc.subject	INFORMATION ECONOMICS
dc.subject	INSURANCE
dc.subject	KNOWLEDGE BASE
dc.subject	KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
dc.subject	LABOR ECONOMICS
dc.subject	LABOR RELATIONS
dc.subject	LABOR RESEARCH
dc.subject	LABOUR
dc.subject	LITERATURE
dc.subject	LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject	MACROECONOMIC POLICY
dc.subject	MACROECONOMICS
dc.subject	MARGINAL VALUE
dc.subject	MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS
dc.subject	MATHEMATICS
dc.subject	MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES
dc.subject	OPEN ACCESS
dc.subject	OPEN ECONOMIES
dc.subject	PAPERS
dc.subject	POLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subject	POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS
dc.subject	PROBABILITY
dc.subject	PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject	PUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subject	PUBLISHING
dc.subject	RANKING SCHEMES
dc.subject	REAL GDP
dc.subject	RESEARCH CAPACITY
dc.subject	RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
dc.subject	RESEARCH OUTPUT
dc.subject	RESEARCHER
dc.subject	RESEARCHERS
dc.subject	SMALL BUSINESS
dc.subject	SOCIAL SCIENCE
dc.subject	SOCIAL SCIENCES
dc.subject	SOCIOLOGY
dc.subject	TELECOMMUNICATIONS
dc.subject	TERTIARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	UNIVERSITIES
dc.subject	WEALTH
dc.subject	WEB
dc.subject	Microdata Set
dc.title	U.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper