Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 405
Cover Image
The effect of postsecondary educational institutions on local economies : a bird's-eye view
Lehnert, Patrick; Dell, Madison; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; … - 2024
Despite worldwide expansion of higher education, the impact of higher education institutions on local economic activity is still poorly understood. We analyze the local economic effects of branch campus openings in Tennessee and Texas, two states representative of the underlying U.S. enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550362
Cover Image
Grads on the go : measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - 2022
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209856
Cover Image
College openings and local economic development
Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022
We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013263068
Cover Image
Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political control and fiscal conservatism led to a large reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529853
Cover Image
Are universities important for explaining unequal participation in student mobility? : a comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Bastianelli, Elena; Blasko, Zsuzsa - 2020
uptake. It goes beyond existing research by not only focusing on individual choices but also on university characteristics …, like university segregation, excellence and student support. In addition, the study is novel in comparing rich graduate … survey and administrative data merged with university level ETER data across four countries. Multilevel regression results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202811
Cover Image
"Workhorses of opportunity" : regional universities increase local social mobility
Howard, Greg; Weinstein, Russell - 2022
Regional public universities educate approximately 70 percent of college students at four-year public universities and an even larger share of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They aim to provide opportunity for education and social mobility, in part by locating near potential students....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414830
Cover Image
Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
Cover Image
Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - 2014
This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418916
Cover Image
The production and stock of college graduates for US states
Winters, John V. - 2014
The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the state if the college graduates leave the state after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461780
Cover Image
Does higher education make you more entrepreneurial? : causal evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021
increase found for university graduates. We attribute this effect to graduates taking full advantage of the opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517504