Local Gains from Global Minds: The Impact of Collaborating with Foreign-Educated Researchers on Non-Mobile Researchers’ Performance

Rodrigo Ito, Fabiana Visentin, Robin Cowan, Diego Chavarro Bohorquez and Tommaso Ciarli
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Rodrigo Ito: Mt Economic Research Inst on Innov/Techn, RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research
Robin Cowan: RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research, Mt Economic Research Inst on Innov/Techn
Diego Chavarro Bohorquez: RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research, Mt Economic Research Inst on Innov/Techn

No 2025-025, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: Foreign-educated researchers who cross national borders for training can play an important role in contributing to research in their country of origin. Relying on a unique dataset of Colombian researchers, our study explores how researchers with Ph.D. training abroad affect the performance of researchers who do not work or study abroad (non-mobile researchers) through direct collaboration. Combining Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Differences estimations, we find that non-mobile researchers who co-author with foreign-educated researchers experience a significant improvement in their research performance. Co-authoring boosts the number of publications, citations, publications in top journals, and the share of publications in English. Interestingly, the extent of these improvements differs across scientific macro fields.

JEL-codes: O15 O30 O33 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10-30
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DOI: 10.53330/TMWR8460

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