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Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China
[Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators]

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  • Xi Yang
  • Xinlan Cai
  • Tingsong Li

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Attracting overseas scientists back to their home countries is an important scientific policy in the era of globalization. The returnee scientists not only have the potential to make high academic achievements by themselves but are also expected to influence other scientists. Using a data-set of 1,006 scientists from Chinese State Key Laboratories, this study finds that recruiting young returnee scientists has a positive effect on the number of their peer’s highly-cited articles. It is also found that the peer effect is not achieved through the promotion of international collaborations of local scientists. It may be realized through other mechanisms, such as knowledge spillovers. As shown in the heterogeneity analysis, the adaptation of returnee scientists and the absorptive capacity of local scientists have an impact on the peer effects of the returnees, which reflects that knowledge dissemination and absorption play significant roles in the returnee’s peer effect.

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  • Xi Yang & Xinlan Cai & Tingsong Li, 2022. "Peer effects of the young returnee scientists: Evidence from the state key laboratories in China [Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators]," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 49(5), pages 739-750.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:49:y:2022:i:5:p:739-750.
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    1. Moritz Müller & Robin Cowan & Helena Barnard, 2023. "The role of local colleagues in establishing international scientific collaboration: Social capital in emerging science systems," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 32(5), pages 1077-1108.

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