An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Knowledge Interactions in Universities on Academic Research and Science and Technology Innovation

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380313
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: Nakajima Ryo 慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(三田), 教授 (70431658)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 田村 龍一 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 特任講師 (50546421)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 大学教育の付加価値 / 科学技術の発展 / 研究成果生産性 / 知識のスピルオーバー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project estimates a professor's value added to a postgraduate student's research achievement growth using unique panel data on matched advisor-advisee pairs in a world-leading physics graduate program. To address an identication problem related to the endogenous selection of advisors and advisees, we use professor turnover and estimate a semi-parametric lower bound of the variance in advisor quality affecting advisee research performance. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in professor quality results in a 0.54 standard deviation increase in a doctoral student's research achievement growth, increasing the number of first-authored papers that are published in top journals by 0.64 at the doctoral level.

Free Research Field

応用計量経済学