Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243300 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 963
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
The fundamental purpose of university geographic clustering is to gather resources through "agglomeration" to improve the performance of higher education and scientific research. However, it has been debated whether university clusters can achieve the latter goal. With the help of the “quasi-experiment” of Chinese "University Towns" project in the 1990s, this study determines the impact of university clusters on scientific research performance. Panel data of 2000 colleges and universities from 1993 to 2017 in the compilation of scientific and technical statistics of Chinese higher education and time-varying difference in differences method are used. The results show that the cluster of colleges and universities have a significant negative impact on the scientific research performance due to technological dis-proximity and rising commuting costs. And the clustering effect is related to the number of participating schools and the level of the university. Therefore, university clustering cannot effectively promote the performance of scientific research and unable to bring agglomeration economies.
Subjects: 
University cluster
Economies of agglomeration
Scientific research performance
Time-varying difference in differences method
JEL: 
I23
O38
O53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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