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The value of insiders as mentors : evidence from the effects of NSF rotators on early career scientists
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Hoenen, Sebastian and Kolympiris, Christos (2020) The value of insiders as mentors : evidence from the effects of NSF rotators on early career scientists. Review of Economics and Statistics, 102 (5). pp. 852-866. doi:10.1162/rest_a_00859 ISSN 0034-6535.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00859
Abstract
We show that academics with experience in government jobs generate spillovers for their early career colleagues. Our template is the National Science Foundation rotation program in which the agency employs academics, called rotators, on loan from their university. Shortly after the rotator’s return from the agency, fresh assistant professors in her department double their research resources and are more likely to win small and medium size grants compared to academics in three control groups. Consistent with evidence that the mechanism is mentoring from the rotator, the results suggest that access to individuals with insights gained outside academia propels scientific careers.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education Q Science > Q Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Scientists, National Science Foundation rotation program, Career development, Universities and colleges -- Graduate work -- United States | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Review of Economics and Statistics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | MIT Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0034-6535 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 December 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 102 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 852-866 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_00859 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the author’s final version, and that the article has been conditionally accepted for publication in Review of Economics and Statistics https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/rest | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 January 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 January 2019 | ||||||||
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