How Important Is U.S. Location for Research in Science?

Shulamit Kahn and Megan MacGarvie

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, vol. 98, issue 2, 397-414

Abstract: This paper asks whether being located outside the United States lowers research productivity in a data set of foreign-born, U.S.-educated scientists. Instrumenting location with visa status that requires return to home countries, we find a large negative relationship between non-U.S. location and research output for countries with low income per capita but none for countries with high income per capita. This suggests that a scientist exogenously located in a country at the top of the income distribution can expect to be as productive in research as he or she would be in the United States.

JEL-codes: F22 F66 J61 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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