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Title: Universities and Regional Development

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Do universities deliver long-term regional development? Because universities produce low mobility tacit knowledge and high mobility embodied knowledge the answer is unclear. In this paper, we use the establishment of agricultural experiment stations to examine how university research affects long-term regional development. Our analysis of county-level agricultural census data from 1870 to 2000 reveals station establishment increased local land productivity over the medium term. Peak effects imply land a standard deviation closer to university research became 36% more productive. While average proximity effects disappear 30 to 50 years after station opening, they remain today where stations focused on basic research.

Url: http://econweb.umd.edu/~davis/eventpapers/WhalleyUniversities.pdf

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Authors: Kantor, Shawn; Whalley, Alexander

Publisher: NBER

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Education

Countries: United States