nep-sog New Economics Papers
on Sociology of Economics
Issue of 2019‒10‒14
two papers chosen by
Jonas Holmström
Axventure AB

  1. Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing By Yuriy Gorodnichenko; Tho Pham; Oleksandr Talavera
  2. Does Mobility across Universities Raise Scientific Productivity? By Ejermo, Olof; Fassio, Claudio; Källström, John

  1. By: Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley); Tho Pham (University of Reading); Oleksandr Talavera (University of Birmingham)
    Abstract: We quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006-2012 period. We show a positive link between conference presentation and the publishing probability in high-quality journals. Participating in major conferences is also associated with improved metrics for other measures of academic success such as the number of citations or abstract views. While the results are broadly similar across fields, annual meetings of the American Economic Association are particularly valuable in these dimensions. We also find that female authors appear to gain less from conferences than male authors.
    Keywords: conferences, publishing outcomes, research visibility, professional development, gender effects
    JEL: I23 O39
    Date: 2019–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bir:birmec:19-10&r=all
  2. By: Ejermo, Olof (Lund University); Fassio, Claudio (Lund University); Källström, John (Lund University)
    Abstract: Using a highly comprehensive new dataset on Swedish researchers, we investigate the effects of interuniversity mobility on researcher productivity. Our study suggests substantial gains from mobility on scientific output. We find that mobility induces a long-lasting increase in a researcher’s publications by 29% and citations by 50%. Moreover, we analyze the factors that are likely to have an impact on the overall effect of mobility: the interaction of mobility and promotion, the importance of the status of the destination university, as well as the role of the specific disciplinary field of mobile researchers. The empirical analysis addresses selection using inverse probability treatment censoring weights.
    Keywords: Economics of science; mobility; scientific productivity; university
    JEL: I23 J24 O31
    Date: 2019–10–04
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:lucirc:2019_014&r=all

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