American universities in a global market / edited by Charles T. Clotfelter.

• Superior document: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Clotfelter, Charles T.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
• Physical Description: xi, 413 p. :; ill., charts.

Table of Contents

Storm clouds for American higher education? -- Is the U.S. losing its preeminence in higher education? / James D. Adams -- To be or not to be: major choices in budding scientists / Eric Bettinger -- Universities as firms in a global market -- Coming to America: where do international doctorate students study and how do U.S. universities respond? / John Bound and Sarah Turner -- The economics of university science and the role of foreign graduate students and postdoctoral scholars / Grant C. Black and Paula E. Stephan -- Universities as firms: the case of U.S. overseas programs / E. Han Kim and Min Zhu -- Emulation and competition abroad -- The structure of European higher education in the wake of the Bologna reforms / Ofer Malamud -- The Americanization of European higher education and research / Lex Borghans and Frank Corvers -- Higher education in China : complement or competition to U.S. universities? / Haizheng Li -- Indian higher education / Devesh Kapur -- From brain drain to brain competition: changing opportunities and the career patterns of U.S.-trained Korean academics / Sunwoong Kim -- Looking ahead -- What does global expansion of higher education mean for the U.S.? / Richard B. Freeman.