Open AccessChinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity
Author(s) -
Patrick Gaulé,
Mario Piacentíni
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the review of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.999
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1530-9142
pISSN - 0034-6535
DOI - 10.1162/rest_a_00283
Subject(s) - productivity , graduate students , set (abstract data type) , medical education , mathematics education , political science , library science , psychology , demographic economics , economics , economic growth , pedagogy , computer science , medicine , programming language
The migration of young Chinese scientists to undertake graduate studies in U.S. universities is arguably one of the most important recent episodes of skilled migration. Using a new data set covering around 16,000 Ph.D. graduates in 161 U.S. chemistry departments, we show that Chinese students have a scientific output during their thesis that is significantly higher than other students. In fact, conditional on acceptance into the same programs, Chinese students perform about as well as the awardees of the NSF doctoral fellowship program. These results shed new light on the benefits of student migration on scientific productivity of destination countries. © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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