education and business. After initial choices, those respondents with high levels of religiosity are more likely to enter … college. Of those who are in college, people with high levels of religiosity tend to go into the humanities and education over …

Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …

Historically, commercial use of university research has been viewed in terms of spillovers. Recently, there has been a … the nature of university research. We develop an intermediate input model to examine the extent to which the growth in … engage in commercializing university research. We model licensing as a three stage process, each involving multiple inputs …

completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the … enrollment or completed education. We also find that larger cohorts have lower schooling attainment, and that aggregate … suggest that the slowdown in education in the 1970s was a temporary response to large cohort sizes and low returns to …

We present quantitative and qualitative evidence (field research) on university technology transfer offices (TTOs …). These offices negotiate licensing agreements with firms to commercialize university-based technologies. A stochastic … frontier production function framework is used to assess the relative productivity of 113 university TTOs. Our field research …