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Title: Agglomeration economies, investment in education, and regional development

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: This dissertation consists of two essays that study the linkages among agglomeration economies, investment in education, and regional development. In the first essay, I study the impact of a federal educational investment on various aspects of local economies. In the second essay, I examine the spillover effects among workers with different skills, which are identified by their college majors. The first essay presents evidence of direct spillovers from universities and examines the short- and long-run effects of university activities on geographic clustering of economic activity, labor market composition and local productivity. I treat the designation of land-grant universities as a natural experiment after controlling for the confounding factors with a combination of synthetic control methods and event-study analyses. Three key results are obtained. First, the designation substantially increased local population density. Second, the share of manufacturing workers in the population, an indicator of labor market composition, was not affected by the designation. Third, the designation greatly enhanced local manufacturing productivity, as measured by local manufacturing output per worker, especially in the long run. This positive effect on the . . .

Url: https://surface.syr.edu/etd/94/

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Authors: Liu, Shimeng

Institution: Syracuse University

Department: Economics

Advisor: Stuart S. Rosenthal

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Syracuse

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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