Arbeitspapier
Does online access promote research in developing countries?
Universities in developing countries have rarely been able to subscribe to academic journals in the past. The "Online Access to Research in the Environment" initiative (OARE) provides institutions in developing countries with free online access to more than 5,700 environmental science journals. Here we analyze the effect of OARE on scientific output in five developing countries. We apply difference-in-difference estimation using panel data for 18,955 articles from 798 research institutions. We find that online access via OARE increases publication output by at least 43% while lower-ranked institutions located in remote areas benefit less. Results are robust when we apply instrumental variables to account for information diffusion and Bayesian estimation to control for self-selection
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Munich Discussion Paper ; No. 2017-4
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Open Source Products and Markets
- Subject
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Online Access
Academic Publishing
Information Diffusion Processes
Instrumental Variables
Bayesian Estimation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Müller-Langer, Frank
Scheufen, Marc
Waelbroeck, Patrick
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
- (where)
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München
- (when)
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2017
- DOI
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doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.31973
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-31973-8
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Müller-Langer, Frank
- Scheufen, Marc
- Waelbroeck, Patrick
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
Time of origin
- 2017
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