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The Impact of the Reputation of Bio-Life Science and Engineering Doctoral Programs on Regional Economic Development.

Retrospective data on the academic reputation of PhD programs in the biological and life sciences and engineering are used in regression models to measure the influence of academic quality on the growth in employment and in per capita income for metropolitan areas in the United States over the two p...

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Published in:Economic Development Quarterly Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 223 - 244
Main Authors: Hill, Edward W., Lendel, Iryna
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. August 2007
Subjects:
Science education (Higher)
Academic departments
Reputation
Doctoral degree
Economic development
Regional economics
United States
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