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by photochemsyn
1390 days ago
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Full text pdf here: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.35.1.185 It seems to be more about the development of the American university system during the 20th century rather than the current status of research in American academics (which is highly corporatized these days, with attendent quality and openness issues). Also, the average quality of American universities isn't very high, from the paper: > "The American system is well suited to producing top schools, although at the
cost of inequality. To illustrate, del Corral (2020) compares the performance of
Spain and the United States in a recent Academic Ranking of World Universities list often known as the “Shanghai ranking”... The United States accounts for 40 of the top 100 universities; Spain for 0. On the other hand, 83 percent of public Spanish universities (delivering in-person instruction) appear somewhere in the ranking that only 23 percent of their American counterparts do." |
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