Date of Award
May 2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Economics
Committee Member
Jorge Garcia
Committee Member
Robert Fleck
Committee Member
Scott Templeton
Abstract
This paper estimates the effects of college attendance from 1870 to 1940 on productivity in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors. I use data from the Records of the Office of Education, Census of Manufacturers, and Census of Agriculture from 1870 to 1940 to analyze trends in college attendance and productivity in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors. I find that every one student increase in the average number of students enrolled in a university in a county over the previous decade increases agricultural output per acre by $.01 and manufacturing output per employee by $2.13.
Recommended Citation
Courtright, David, "University Spillovers: Productivity in the Agricultural and Manufacturing Sectors 1870-1940" (2020). All Theses. 3277.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/3277