Academic Collaboration Network in Development Economics

We investigate the network of scholarly collaboration in development economics in this project. More specifically, we examine the pattern of collaboration in the co-authorship network and scholar-implementer partnership network. Although collaboration also exists in the form of commenting and a research assistantship, we decided to focus on co-authorship and research implementation as these two types of collaboration are major factors in determining the overall structure of newly submitted working papers that have not received peer review. For the co-authorship network, we are interested in the following questions: 1) Who are the influential scholars in development economics? 2) Are there any differential returns of social capital depending on gender in the co-authorship network? If so, how does that affect productivity? 3) How the legitimacy of a researcher in his/her co-authorship network affects his/her productivity? 4) What implementing organizations do scholars usually partner with for the fieldwork of RCTs?

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