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Lost in the storm: the academic collaborations that went missing in Hurricane ISSAC

Campos, Raquel ORCID: 0009-0008-7715-3706, Leon, Fernanda and McQuillin, Ben (2018) Lost in the storm: the academic collaborations that went missing in Hurricane ISSAC. The Economic Journal, 128 (610). pp. 995-1018. ISSN 0013-0133

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Identification Number: 10.1111/ecoj.12566

Abstract

By exploiting the cancellation of the 2012 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, we investigate the role of conferences in facilitating academic collaboration. We assembled data sets comprising 17,467 academics, and in difference‐in‐differences analysis we find that the conference cancellation led to a decrease in individuals’ likelihood of co‐authoring an article with another attendant by 16%. Moreover, collaborations formed among attendants of (occurring) conferences are associated with more successful co‐publications: an effect which is sharpest for teams that are new or non‐collocated. Conferences seem to de‐cluster the co‐authorship network. Altogether, our findings demonstrate the importance of conferences in scientific production.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/146802...
Additional Information: © 2018 Wiley
Divisions: Management
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Date Deposited: 21 Sep 2018 11:47
Last Modified: 05 Oct 2024 03:45
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90251

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