【题  目】Can Brain Drain of Elite Scientists be Reversed? Evidence from China’s Young Thousand Talents Program

【时  间】2020年12月30日（星期三），14:30-16:00

【地  点】北京师范大学后主楼1629

【主讲人】史冬波 副研究员 （上海交通大学国际与公共事务学院）

摘要：Scientists play a central role in a knowledge-based economy. However, less developed countries have lost many of their best and brightest to the developed world. To reverse this "brain drain", many countries are setting up policy programs to attract skilled emigrants to return. The effectiveness of these programs has been mixed, partly due to policy heterogeneity. This study investigates one of the most prominent programs – China's Young Thousand Talents (YTT) Plan. We identify every member of the program’s first four cohorts and match them with Chinese scientists with similar educational background, in the same research field, of the same level of pre-return scientific knowledge productivity but having stayed overseas. Difference in differences estimation provides consistent evidence that YTT returnees are associated with a large post-return boost in knowledge productivity, an effect that varies across institutional types, time and academic disciplines. The performance boosting effect can be completely explained by research funding from the talent program, suggesting that its success can be replicated in other regions of the world.

报告人简介

史冬波，上海交通大学国际与公共事务学院特别副研究员，上海市晨光学者，新加坡国立大学访问研究员。2011年和2016年在清华大学获得理学学士和管理学博士学位，曾任哈佛大学肯尼迪学院Belfer研究中心访问学者，先后在上海市政府金融办公室、昆山市科技局挂职。长期关注创新相关议题，研究兴趣集中在两个方面：科学家的科研产出、初创企业的创新能力与专利行为。同时致力于多渠道传播与普及创新经济学最新研究发现，运营微信公众号“熊彼特的厨房”。