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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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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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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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Did the Bologna Process challenge the German apprenticeship system? : evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020
. Approximately 29% of new apprentices are university-eligible graduates from academic-track schools. We evaluate the effects of the …
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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. …
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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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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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In-state college enrollment and later life location decisions
Winters, John V. - 2018
State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the American Community Survey, decennial censuses, and other sources to examine how birth-state...
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Does college location affect the location choice of new college graduates? : evidence from China
Huang, Mian; Xing, Chunbing; Xiaoyong, Cui - 2019
Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing cost and to estimate the unobservable location...
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