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The elite in economics

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorAlbarrán, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorCarrasco, Raquel
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Castillo, Javier
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.otherUniversidad Carlos III de Madrides
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-29T08:41:12Z
dc.date.available2014-10-29T08:41:12Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.description.abstractWe use a sample consisting of economists working in 2007 in the world top 81 Economics departments, and Econometric Society Fellows working elsewhere. Productivity is based in each individual’s publications in four journal equivalent classes. We identify three elites consisting of 123, 332, and 908 researchers in a total sample of 2,605 scholars, which are partitioned into the U.S., the European Union, and the rest of the world. We investigate the following questions. (1) The “funneling effect” from countries where elite members obtain their first degree, to countries where they earn a Ph.D., and to countries where they work in 2007. (2) The clustering in a few U.S. institutions. (3) The distribution into those who study and work in the same country (stayers), those who study their Ph.D. abroad but come back home to work (brain circulation), and those who migrate after completing their education at home, plus those who remain abroad after studying the Ph.D. (two forms of brain drain). (4) The research gap favoring the U.S. (5) The elite in Economics versus other scientific disciplines. (6) We investigate questions 1 to 4 above for the subset of economists that earned a Ph.D. at most 25 years before 2007en
dc.description.sponsorshipAlbarrán acknowledges financial support from the Spanish MEC through grants ECO2009-11165 and ECO2011-29751, and Carrasco and Ruiz-Castillo through grants No. ECO2012-31358 and ECO2011-29762, respectivelyen
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe1414
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/19151
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001233
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paper Economic Seriesen
dc.relation.ispartofseries14-14
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2012-31358
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2011-29762
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2011-29751
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.titleThe elite in economicsen
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