地方条件决定科学的方向吗？来自美国赠地大学的证据

IF 2.6 1区历史学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Explorations in Economic History Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI:10.1016/j.eeh.2025.101669

Michael J. Andrews , Alexa Smith

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摘要

我们量化了土地补助大学位于种植不同于其他州作物的县的程度，我们称之为农业不代表性。我们发现，位于农业不具代表性的县的赠地学院倾向于研究更不具代表性的作物。我们利用历史大学选址自然实验来确定大学县农业不代表性的外生变异，也得到了类似的结果。此外，我们发现，在农业不具代表性的地区，大学产生的生产力溢出效应在地理上更有限。

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Do local conditions determine the direction of science? Evidence from U.S. land grant colleges

We quantify the extent to which land grant colleges were located in counties that grow different crops than the rest of their states, which we call agricultural unrepresentativeness. We find that land grant colleges located in agriculturally unrepresentative counties tended to produce research focusing on more unrepresentative crops. We find similar results when exploiting historical college site selection natural experiments to identify exogenous variation in the agricultural unrepresentativeness of the college county. Moreover, we find that colleges in agriculturally unrepresentative locations created more geographically limited productivity spillovers.

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Explorations in Economic History Multiple-

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2.50

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8.70%

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期刊介绍： Explorations in Economic History provides broad coverage of the application of economic analysis to historical episodes. The journal has a tradition of innovative applications of theory and quantitative techniques, and it explores all aspects of economic change, all historical periods, all geographical locations, and all political and social systems. The journal includes papers by economists, economic historians, demographers, geographers, and sociologists. Explorations in Economic History is the only journal where you will find "Essays in Exploration." This unique department alerts economic historians to the potential in a new area of research, surveying the recent literature and then identifying the most promising issues to pursue.