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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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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
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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