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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
Published online before print February 06, 2017, 0516-7949R; 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 in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame.
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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 in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame.
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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 in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame.
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The largest flow of scientific talent in the world is the migration of international students to universities in industrialized countries. We use the opening of China in 1978 to estimate this flow’s causal effect on the productivity of their professors in the U.S. Our identification relies on both the suddenness of China’s opening and on a key feature of scientific production: intra-ethnic collaboration. The increased access that Chinese-American advisors had to a new talent pool led to an increase in their productivity, in both coauthorships and solo-authored papers. Comparable non-Chinese advisors mentored fewer non-Chinese students and published fewer papers.

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George J. Borjas, Kirk B. Doran, Ying Shen
Journal of Human Resources Feb 2017, 0516-7949R; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.53.1.0516-7949R

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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, Ying Shen
Journal of Human Resources Feb 2017, 0516-7949R; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.53.1.0516-7949R
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