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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...

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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 …

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"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....

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Looking back on the lessons of "higher education and developing countries: peril and promise" : perspectives on China and India

Bloom, David E.; Altbach, Philip G.; Rosovsky, Henry - 2016

In 2000, Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise was published. This report, cosponsored by The World Bank and UNESCO, came at a time of transition in higher education worldwide and helped shape higher education policy and thinking in several developing countries. This...

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