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Ethnic Complementarities after the Opening of China

How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors

George J. Borjas, Kirk B. Doran and Ying Shen
Journal of Human Resources, January 2018, 53 (1) 1-31; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.53.1.0516-7949R
George J. Borjas
George Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kirk Doran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Ying Shen is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame. This paper uses confidential data from the MathSciNet data archive maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
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Kirk B. Doran
George Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kirk Doran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Ying Shen is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame. This paper uses confidential data from the MathSciNet data archive maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
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George Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kirk Doran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Ying Shen is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame. This paper uses confidential data from the MathSciNet data archive maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
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