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

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dc.creatorDo, Quy-Toan
dc.creatorDas, Jishnu
dc.creatorShaines, Karen
dc.creatorSrinivasan, Sowmya
dc.date2012-03-19T19:14:28Z
dc.date2012-03-19T19:14:28Z
dc.date2009-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:04:21Z
dc.descriptionUsing 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.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4345
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-5152
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/414980
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relationPolicy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5152
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectACADEMIC RESEARCH
dc.subjectACCOUNTING
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
dc.subjectARTICLE
dc.subjectARTICLES
dc.subjectBUSINESS ECONOMICS
dc.subjectCITATION
dc.subjectCITATION INDEX
dc.subjectCITATION INDICES
dc.subjectCITATIONS
dc.subjectCIVIL RIGHTS
dc.subjectCLASSIFICATION
dc.subjectCLASSIFICATIONS
dc.subjectCOMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDATA QUALITY
dc.subjectDEMOCRACY
dc.subjectDESCRIPTION
dc.subjectDESCRIPTIONS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDISCIPLINES
dc.subjectDOCUMENTS
dc.subjectDOMAIN
dc.subjectECONOMETRICS
dc.subjectECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIC HISTORY
dc.subjectECONOMIC POLICIES
dc.subjectECONOMIC RESEARCH
dc.subjectECONOMIC STATISTICS
dc.subjectECONOMIC SURVEYS
dc.subjectECONOMIC THEORY
dc.subjectECONOMICS
dc.subjectECONOMICS HISTORY
dc.subjectECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
dc.subjectECONOMICS RESEARCH
dc.subjectELASTICITY
dc.subjectENTRY
dc.subjectEVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
dc.subjectFORMAL ANALYSIS
dc.subjectGAME THEORY
dc.subjectGDP
dc.subjectGDP PER CAPITA
dc.subjectGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
dc.subjectHOUSING
dc.subjectHUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectHUMAN RESOURCES
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOMES
dc.subjectINDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
dc.subjectINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
dc.subjectINFORMATION ECONOMICS
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectKNOWLEDGE BASE
dc.subjectKNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
dc.subjectLABOR ECONOMICS
dc.subjectLABOR RELATIONS
dc.subjectLABOR RESEARCH
dc.subjectLABOUR
dc.subjectLITERATURE
dc.subjectLIVING STANDARDS
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC POLICY
dc.subjectMACROECONOMICS
dc.subjectMARGINAL VALUE
dc.subjectMATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS
dc.subjectMATHEMATICS
dc.subjectMIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES
dc.subjectOPEN ACCESS
dc.subjectOPEN ECONOMIES
dc.subjectPAPERS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectPOST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS
dc.subjectPROBABILITY
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectPUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subjectPUBLISHING
dc.subjectRANKING SCHEMES
dc.subjectREAL GDP
dc.subjectRESEARCH CAPACITY
dc.subjectRESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectRESEARCH OUTPUT
dc.subjectRESEARCHER
dc.subjectRESEARCHERS
dc.subjectSMALL BUSINESS
dc.subjectSOCIAL SCIENCE
dc.subjectSOCIAL SCIENCES
dc.subjectSOCIOLOGY
dc.subjectTELECOMMUNICATIONS
dc.subjectTERTIARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectUNIVERSITIES
dc.subjectWEALTH
dc.subjectWEB
dc.subjectMicrodata Set
dc.titleU.S. and Them : The Geography of Academic Research

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