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Lien, Donald; Wang, Yaqin – Education Economics, 2012
We examine the effects of a branch campus on the social welfare of the host country and the foreign university. Overall, we find that a branch campus increases both the domestic social welfare (measured by the aggregate student utility) and the tuition revenue of the foreign university. The effect of a branch campus on the brain drain is…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Brain Drain, Study Abroad, Social Influences
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Lien, Donald – Education Economics, 2008
This paper considers the effects of a branch campus on the individual college education decision and the economic welfare of a developing country. There are a single domestic college and a single branch campus established by a foreign university. A graduate from the branch campus has an opportunity to emigrate and work abroad, earning a higher…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Overseas Employment, Multicampus Colleges, Brain Drain
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Lien, Donald – Education Economics, 2008
The number of colleges and universities in most developing countries has increased drastically over the past decades. The quality variation of these institutions is an alarming concern. Quality assurance programs are proposed and implemented. This paper evaluates the effects of quality assurance on the demand for college education, study abroad,…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Educational Demand, Brain Drain, Study Abroad
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Lien, Donald – Economics of Education Review, 2006
Assume that there are two types of knowledge, global and local. This paper considers a university in a developing country that allocates finite education resources to the delivery of these two types of knowledge. We provide the optimal resource allocation that maximizes social welfare. We show that, by imposing a minimum resource allocation to…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Brain Drain, Models, Developing Nations
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Lien, Donald – Education Economics, 2006
This paper constructs a theoretical model to evaluate the effects of borderless education on education resource allocation by a public university in a developing country. It is sometimes argued that, with sole emphasis and competence in global knowledge, borderless education will lead to the demise of local knowledge in the developing country. We…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Indigenous Knowledge, Developing Nations, Models