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Accuracy in Academia:
Do colleges + universities = economic growth?

23 August 2016

''We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the number of universities are positively associated with future growth of GDP per capita (and this relationship is robust to controlling for a host of observables, as well as unobserved regional trends),'' Anna Valero and John Van Reenen, of the London School of Economics, write in a working paper that they published this month at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). NBER is housed at Harvard

This article was published online by Accuracy in Academia on August 23, 2016
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Related article
Growth multiplier: how university expansion increases national income, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen, LSE British Politics and Policy blog, March 24, 2016
The Economic Impact of Universities: Evidence from Across the Globe, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1444, August 2016

Related links
Anna Valero webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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