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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
Daun-Barnett, Nathan J. – Association for Institutional Research, 2012
For more than 50 years, human capital theory has been the cornerstone for understanding the value of investing in individuals' productive capacities in terms of both personal social and economic gain and the collective benefits that accrue to society. Vedder and Denhart (2007) challenge the hypothesis that public investment in higher education…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, State Aid, Educational Finance