Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162382 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Munich Discussion Paper No. 2017-4
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München
Abstract: 
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
Subjects: 
Online Access
Academic Publishing
Information Diffusion Processes
Instrumental Variables
Bayesian Estimation
JEL: 
O33
L17
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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