Naturalization and the productivity of foreign-born doctorates

Daniel Crown () and Alessandra Faggian
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Daniel Crown: The Ohio State University

Journal of Geographical Systems, 2019, vol. 21, issue 4, No 6, 533-556

Abstract: Abstract This paper estimates the effect of obtaining US citizenship on individual-level measures of productivity for foreign-born doctoral recipients from US universities. Becoming a US citizen results in the removal of barriers such as access to public sector occupations and to some sources of government-sponsored research funding which are hypothesized to increase the productivity of foreign-born scientists. We utilize panel data from the Survey of Doctoral Recipients from 1993 to 2013 and individual fixed effects models to control for selection bias in the naturalization decision. Our results indicate that becoming a naturalized citizen increases wages and several measures of academic productivity. In support of our argument, we find that foreign-born workers who naturalize are more likely to utilize research funding from a government agency, but not more likely to work for the government post-naturalization.

Keywords: Skilled immigration; Citizenship; Labor economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 J24 J45 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s10109-019-00301-6

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