| By: |
David de la Croix (UCL IRES - Institut de recherches économiques et sociales - UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain, LIDAM - Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics, CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research - CEPR);
Frédéric Docquier (LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research);
Alice Fabre (AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université);
Robert Stelter (Unibas - University of Basel, MPIDR - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) |
| Abstract: |
We argue that market forces shaped the geographic distribution of upper-tail
human capital across Europe during the Middle Ages, and contributed to
bolstering universities at the dawn of the Humanistic and Scienti c
Revolutions. We build a unique database of thousands of scholars from
university sources covering all of Europe, construct an index of their
ability, and map the academic market in the medieval and early modern periods.
We show that scholars tended to concentrate in the best universities
(agglomeration), that better scholars were more sensitive to the quality of
the university (positive sorting) and migrated over greater distances
(positive selection). Agglomeration, selection and sorting patterns testify to
an integrated academic market, made possible by the use of a common language
(Latin). |
| Keywords: |
Agglomeration,Publications,Scholars,Discrete choice model,Universities,Upper-Tail Human Capital |
| Date: |
2022–04–26 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03652304&r= |