全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w22501
来源ID	Working Paper 22501
	The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe
	Anna Valero; John Van Reenen
发表日期	2016-08-15
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century. We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the number of universities are positively associated with future growth of GDP per capita (and this relationship is robust to controlling for a host of observables, as well as unobserved regional trends). Our estimates imply that doubling the number of universities per capita is associated with 4% higher future GDP per capita. Furthermore, there appear to be positive spillover effects from universities to geographically close neighboring regions. We show that the relationship between growth and universities is not simply driven by the direct expenditures of the university, its staff and students. Part of the effect of universities on growth is mediated through an increased supply of human capital and greater innovation (although the magnitudes are not large). We find that within countries, higher historical university presence is associated with stronger pro-democratic attitudes.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w22501
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580174
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Anna Valero,John Van Reenen. The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe. 2016.

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