How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Productivity in Economics and Finance?

Kruger, Samuel; Maturana, Gonzalo; Nickerson, Jordan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3745226

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“…Amano‐Patiño (2020) reports that female economists are vastly underrepresented in the new and flourishing area of COVID research. Our evidence is also consistent with the findings in Kruger, Maturana, and Nickerson (2020) that although the overall volume of working papers increased during the pandemic, a gender gap in the posting of papers online has continued during the pandemic. Although evidence on the more pronounced impact of the pandemic on research for women and faculty with young children is growing, we still know little about the mechanisms driving these differences, which is the focus of our study.…”

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“…The mean decline in self‐reported research productivity that we observe seems more negative compared to findings in concurrent research by Kruger, Maturana, and Nickerson (2020), who report a 35% increase in new finance and economics working papers posted to SSRN during the second quarter of 2020 following the onset of the pandemic. There are several potential explanations for why the average survey respondent reports adverse effects on research productivity while aggregate working paper postings increased.…”

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“…Indeed, 14.5% of our sample reports that the pandemic has had a “slightly positive” or “very positive” impact on their research productivity. In fact, the productivity surge documented in Kruger, Maturana, and Nickerson (2020), who restrict attention to the top 50 U.S. departments, was particularly large in the top 10 departments. They show that COVID‐19 has steepened the productivity curve, where more productive researchers may become even more productive.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They show that COVID‐19 has steepened the productivity curve, where more productive researchers may become even more productive. The focus on the top 50 departments in Kruger, Maturana, and Nickerson (2020) places heavy weights on this group, while our survey was sent to faculty at practically all schools, both in the United States and around the world.…”

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“…Second, the productivity surge documented in Kruger, Maturana, and Nickerson (2020) appears to be a one‐time surge at the beginning of the pandemic when many researchers could use the spring and summer months (which normally would have coincided with a busy “conference season”) to complete existing projects. Figure 1 of Kruger, Maturana, and Nickerson (2020) shows that monthly SSRN uploads drop closer to normal levels by the fall of 2020, which coincides with the timing of our survey (October 2020). Consistent with this pattern, a simple tabulation of SSRN FEN (finance field) postings of new papers for the full year by scholars from all institutions, without filtering for top‐50 or top‐10 departments, shows a more modest increase of 5.5% in 2020 over 2019 (see Table IA IIIA.…”

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What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity during the Pandemic?

Barber¹,

Jiang²,

Morse³

et al. 2021

The Journal of Finance

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Based on a survey of American Finance Association members, we analyze how demographics, time allocation, production mechanisms, and institutional factors affect research production during the pandemic. Consistent with the literature, research productivity falls more for women and faculty with young children. Independently, and novel, extra time spent on teaching (much more likely for women) negatively affects research productivity. Also novel, concerns about feedback, isolation, and health have large negative research effects, which disproportionately affect junior faculty and PhD students. Finally, faculty who express greater concerns about employers’ finances report larger negative research effects and more concerns about feedback, isolation, and health.

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Choice and allocation characteristics of faculty time in Korea: effects of tenure, research performance, and external shock

Jung

Choi

2022

Scientometrics

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Academics generally should meet both teaching duty and research performance requirements. Since their work time is finite, academics need to allocate time for research, teaching, and other types of work. This means that universities or governments might enhance the efficiency of their faculty systems or educational policies by understanding academics’ preferences for choice and allocation of their work time. We analyzed the work time allocation preferences of 450 Korean academics in science and engineering fields based on the multiple discrete–continuous extreme value (MDCEV) model. We classified work time into either of research, teaching, or other tasks and investigated the relationship between academics’ preferences in choosing and allocating their work time and faculty system (e.g., tenure), individual characteristics (e.g., research productivity) and external shock (e.g., COVID-19). Analysis results show that academics with either of tenure, higher research productivity, or commercialization experience preferred to allocating their work time firstly to research, i.e., rather than to teaching or other tasks, while this was not the case for the academics after the pandemic. In general, academics appeared not to prefer allocating their work time firstly to teaching. Implications of our study are twofold. First, the higher education sector needs to incentivize academics’ teaching time allocation for enhanced effectiveness of education. Second, universities and governments urgently need systems and policies to facilitate academics’ research time allocation for enhanced research productivity as we find deteriorated preference for research time allocation after COVID-19.

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The influence of Covid-19 on publications in economics: bibliometric evidence from five working paper series

Bürgi

Wohlrabe

2022

Scientometrics

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We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on five well-known working papers series and data from the RePEc website, we find that Covid papers mainly cover topics in macroeconomics and health, they are written by larger teams than non-Covid papers, are more often downloaded and they receive more citations relative to non-Covid papers.

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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Research Productivity in Economics and Finance?

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity during the Pandemic?

What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity during the Pandemic?

Choice and allocation characteristics of faculty time in Korea: effects of tenure, research performance, and external shock

The influence of Covid-19 on publications in economics: bibliometric evidence from five working paper series

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