高等教育机构如何影响本地发明?来自美国大学建立的证据

IF 5.6 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

American Economic Journal-Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1257/pol.20200320

Michael J. Andrews

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摘要

我使用了一些美国大学的选址决策的叙述性历史数据，以确定那些被强烈认为是新大学选址的亚军地点。在差异中差异模型中，我使用排名第二的县作为反事实，发现建立一所大学每年能多获得62%的专利。将专利与新颖的大学年鉴数据联系起来可以发现，一所大学所在县只有12%的专利来自该学院的校友或教员。我发现，在专利申请方面，建校与建校之间，以及技术领域不同的院校之间，只有很小的差异。(jel i23, n31, n32, n71, n72, o31, o34)

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How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of US Colleges

I use narrative historical data on site selection decisions for a subset of US colleges to identify runner-up locations that were strongly considered to become the sites of new colleges. Using runner-up counties as counterfactuals in a difference-in-difference model, I find that establishing a college causes 62 percent more patents per year. Linking patents to novel college yearbook data reveals that only 12 percent of patents in a college’s county came from that college’s alumni or faculty. I find only small differences in patenting between establishing colleges and establishing other institutions as well as between colleges with different focuses on technical fields. (JEL I23, N31, N32, N71, N72, O31, O34)

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American Economic Journal-Economic Policy ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： The American Economic Review (AER) is a general-interest economics journal. The journal publishes 12 issues containing articles on a broad range of topics. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in economics. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy publishes papers covering a range of topics, the common theme being the role of economic policy in economic outcomes. Subject areas include public economics; urban and regional economics; public policy aspects of health, education, welfare and political institutions; law and economics; economic regulation; and environmental and natural resource economics.