Arbeitspapier
The Education-Innovation Gap
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge. More selective and better funded schools, and those enrolling socio-economically advantaged students, teach more frontier knowledge. Instructors play a big role in shaping course content; research-active instructors teach more frontier knowledge. Students from schools teaching more frontier knowledge are more likely to complete a PhD, produce more patents, and earn more after graduation.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9653
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Education and Inequality
Returns to Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Thema
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education
innovation
syllabi
instructors
text analysis
inequality
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Biasi, Barbara
Ma, Song
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Biasi, Barbara
- Ma, Song
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2022
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