Working Paper #2025-025
Local Gains from Global Minds: The Impact of Collaborating with Foreign-Educated Researchers on Non-Mobile Researchers’ Performance
Foreign-educated researchers who cross national borders for training can play an important role in contributing to research in their country of origin. Relying on a unique dataset of Colombian researchers, our study explores how researchers with Ph.D. training abroad affect the performance of researchers who do not work or study abroad (non-mobile researchers) through direct collaboration. Combining Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Differences estimations, we find that non-mobile researchers who co-author with foreign-educated researchers experience a significant improvement in their research performance. Co-authoring boosts the number of publications, citations, publications in top journals, and the share of publications in English. Interestingly, the extent of these improvements differs across scientific macro fields.
- Keywords
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- International Scientific Mobility
- Co-authorship
- Colombia
- JEL codes
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- O15
- O3
- 054
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Ito, R., Visentin, F., Cowan, R., Chavarro, D., & Ciarli, T. (2025). Local Gains from Global Minds: The Impact of Collaborating with Foreign-Educated Researchers on Non-Mobile Researchers’ Performance (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2025-025). UNU-MERIT. https://doi.org/10.53330/TMWR8460