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Article: Globally Bred Chinese Talents Returning Home: An Analysis of a Reverse Brain-Drain Flagship Policy
Title | Globally Bred Chinese Talents Returning Home: An Analysis of a Reverse Brain-Drain Flagship Policy |
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Keywords | China early-and mid-career researchers policy effect research performance talent mobility the USA |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Citation | Science and Public Policy, 2021, v. 48, n. 4, p. 541-552 How to Cite? |
Abstract | China has launched a series of talent-recruitment policies in the last years, in order to attract back Chinese nationals who stayed abroad. Yet, little is known about the effect of such policies. This paper examines whether researchers recruited in one of the Chinese flagship talent-recruitment policies-the 'Young Thousand Talents' policy (Y1000T)-had, in the following years after recruitment, better research performance. We compare these recipients against other Chinese nationals who got PhDs in equally prestigious non-Chinese universities but continued to work abroad (mostly in the USA). Results of difference-in-differences regressions show that returning to China has an effect of positioning returnees both at the bottom and at the very summit of the distribution of quality of publications. Nevertheless, some Y1000T researchers seem to have prioritized the quantity of outputs, arguably to the detriment of quality. This is probably due to certain research evaluation criteria in place until recent times. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/311527 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.823 |
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dc.contributor.author | Marini, Giulio | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yang, Lili | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-22T11:54:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-22T11:54:09Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Science and Public Policy, 2021, v. 48, n. 4, p. 541-552 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0302-3427 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/311527 | - |
dc.description.abstract | China has launched a series of talent-recruitment policies in the last years, in order to attract back Chinese nationals who stayed abroad. Yet, little is known about the effect of such policies. This paper examines whether researchers recruited in one of the Chinese flagship talent-recruitment policies-the 'Young Thousand Talents' policy (Y1000T)-had, in the following years after recruitment, better research performance. We compare these recipients against other Chinese nationals who got PhDs in equally prestigious non-Chinese universities but continued to work abroad (mostly in the USA). Results of difference-in-differences regressions show that returning to China has an effect of positioning returnees both at the bottom and at the very summit of the distribution of quality of publications. Nevertheless, some Y1000T researchers seem to have prioritized the quantity of outputs, arguably to the detriment of quality. This is probably due to certain research evaluation criteria in place until recent times. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Science and Public Policy | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | early-and mid-career researchers | - |
dc.subject | policy effect | - |
dc.subject | research performance | - |
dc.subject | talent mobility | - |
dc.subject | the USA | - |
dc.title | Globally Bred Chinese Talents Returning Home: An Analysis of a Reverse Brain-Drain Flagship Policy | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/scipol/scab021 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85116321820 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 48 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 541 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 552 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000702160200010 | - |