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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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Best practices in academic management : study programs classification model

Aleca, Ofelia Ema; Mihai, Florin - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 42, pp. 462-473

This article proposes and tests a set of performance indicators for the assessment of Bachelor and Master studies, from two perspectives: the study programs and the disciplines. The academic performance at the level of a study program shall be calculated based on success and efficiency rates,...

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The university role in developing the human capital for a sustainable bioeconomy

Bejinaru, Ruxandra; Hapenciuc, Cristian Valentin; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 20 (2018) 49, pp. 583-598

The developments in the bioeconomy area should reflect their usefulness regarding the provision of sustainable solutions for future competitiveness growth by using mainly natural resources. Nowadays the relevance of education, training and research in bioeconomy domain is obvious because these...

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The role of universities in consolidating intellectual capital and generating new knowledge for a sustainable bio-economy

Tiron-Tudor, Adriana; Nistor, Cristina Silvia; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 20 (2018) 49, pp. 599-615

This study focuses on the wide debated concept of bio-economy, underlying its evolution and connection with universities’ goal, from the intellectual capital (IC) perspective. It’s aim is to highlight the mutual influence of IC disclosures and knowledge management in its ability to foster...

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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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Higher education in the fight against poverty from the capabilities approach : the case of Spain

Sanz, Roberto; Peris, José Alfredo; Escámez, Juan - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 2 (2017) 2, pp. 53-66

capability development, and aimed at social responsibility; (2) the formation of a university community as agents of their lives … and communities; (3) the learning by the university community of the values in the capabilities approach; (4) the option … of the university community for participation in public affairs in the pursuit of the common good; (5) the primacy of the …

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Migration and housing price effects of place-based college scholarships

Bartik, Timothy J.; Sotherland, Nathan - 2015

Place-based college scholarships, such as the Kalamazoo Promise, provide students who live in a particular place, and/or who attend a particular school district, with generous college scholarships. An important potential benefit from such "Promise programs" is their short-term effects on local...

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The production and stock of college graduates for U.S. States

Winters, John V. - 2015

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/10011399511

Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution

Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2012

trend rate of market establishment breaks upward in 1386 and that this break is greatest where the distance to a university … shrank most. There is no differential pre-1386 trend associated with the reduction in distance to a university, and there is … no break in trend in 1386 where university proximity did not change. These results are not affected by excluding cities …

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Does higher education cause political participation? : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Solis, Alex - 2013

Education has been considered by political economy and political science literature one of the most important factors explaining political participation: voter turnout, civic engagement, political knowledge, and democratic attitudes. However, only few papers have explored the causal link with...

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