We analyze the determinants of the compensation of private college and university presidents from 1999 through 2007. We find that the fraction of institutional revenue derived from current donations is negatively associated with compensation and that presidents of religiously-affiliated...

Develops a new methodology for estimating the value of federal, state and local tax exemptions received by private, nonprofit higher-educational institutions, using Northeastern University as a demonstration case study

Formal university technology transfer mechanisms, through licensing agreements, research joint ventures, and university-based startups, have attracted considerable attention in the academic literature. Surprisingly, there has been little systematic empirical analysis of the propensity of...

This article identifies a number of international initiatives that have contributed to, reflect, or facilitate global higher education mobility. The article begins by presenting statistics about global higher education mobility. The sections that follow address a number of “hard law” and...

Few papers address the issue of faculty motivations to patent, and none comprehensively investigates why faculty decide not to patent. To fill this gap, I surveyed Italian faculty inventors of university-owned patents (N = 208), and noninventors working in the same disciplines (N = 416). Major...

This paper proposes a model of the choice to commercialize research and of the amount and type of pre-commercial research to perform, of the timing of commercialization by an academic scientist, and analyzes the returns and costs of these choices. The behavior and performance of the academic...

This paper investigates the relation between the creditworthiness of U.S. institutions of higher education and their student selectivity (i.e., demand and quality). We study whether the impact of student selectivity differs across public versus private universities; across the credit quality of...

This article explores the issue of program diversification within Russian higher education institutions (HEIs) and its major determining forces. Comparing several historical types of specialized institutions, which were manly formed during the Soviet period, this study highlights two key issues....