The collapse of the soviet union and the productivity of american mathematicians

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1143-1203

  Borjas, George J ^a   Doran, Kirk B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; MARKET SYSTEM; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLISHING; SIZE EFFECT;

USSR;

EID: 84865441299     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjs015     Document Type: Article

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