Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

By William R. Kerr. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation (2008, background): “…raises the possibility that the migration of skilled human capital from poor countries may not just be a negative ''brain drain; " it could also have more a positive effect as a ''brain bank, " accumulating knowledge abroad and facilitating its transfer back to domestic inventors (Kerr, 2008).”
Consumer-lending discrimination in the FinTech Era (2019, methodology): “These are determined in our analysis by combining selfreported data from HMDA and, for mortgages in HMDA that lack an indicator of borrower race/ethnicity, borrower’s likely race/ethnicity based on a race and ethnicity name-categorization algorithm from Kerr and Lincoln (2010) and Kerr (2008).”
Scientific Mobility and Knowledge Transfer at the Interregional and Intraregional Level (2013, background): “leading to a sharing of the benefits of skilled migration between sending and receiving areas (REGETS, 2007; KERR, 2008).”
How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data (2008, background): “…the role that ethnic networks play in facilitating knowledge exchange and other valuable economic interactions (Rauch, 2001).4 In particular, Kerr (2005) reports results indicating that 3 We focus on co-ethnicity as one particular grouping for which membership raises the likelihood of…”
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms (2014, neutral): “[37] Kerr, William, "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion", Review of Economics and Statistics 90:3 (2008), 518-537.”
Agglomeration and Innovation (2014, neutral): “Kerr and Kominers (2014) use this insight to build a model of clusters comprising small, overlapping regions.”
Neighbors and the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations: Evidence of international knowledge diffusion? (2014, background): “Other forms of human interaction may also be involved, including the ease of physical and electronic communication, as well as international ethnic/cultural links (e.g. Stein and Daude, of the comparative advantage of nations: Evidence of international co.2013.11.001 2007; Giroud, 2012; Kerr, 2008).”
High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration (2017, background): “Our companion paper, Kerr et al. (2016), provides complementary patterns and certain statistics that we do not repeat.”
Measuring the Returns to R&D (2010, neutral): “For other examples of this literature, see Moen 2005, Kerr 2008, and Maliranta, Mohnen, and Rouvinen 2010.”
The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying (2014, methodology): “These papers, along with Kerr (2007, 2008), also explain the methodology that we use to construct our second dependency metric based upon ethnic patenting.”
Board Ancestral Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility (2016, methodology): “For this reason, Onomap can be considered superior to the name classifications used in previous studies in economics (e.g., Kerr, 2008).”
International business travel: an engine of innovation? (2014, positive): “Common ethnicity may lower the cost of transferring knowledge from one country to another (Kerr 2008).5 Moreover, movements of scientists themselves can be a conduit of international knowledge flows (Oettl and Agrawal 2008, Kim et al. 2006).”
The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration (2012, background): “…rates of out-migration sheds light on the benefits that accrue to sending countries through remittances, brain gain [Mountford 1997, Dustmann and Weiss 2007, Docquier and Rapoport 2008, Mayr and Peri 2008], and the establishment of information networks between sending and host nations [Kerr 2008].”