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Upper-Tail Human Capital Universities Discrete choice model Scholars Publications Agglomeration N - Economic History/N.N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy/N.N3.N33 - Europe: Pre-1913 O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I25 - Education and Economic DevelopmentSujets proches
Council of Europe countries Students--Education Children--Education Education of children Schooling Pedagogy Youth--Education Instruction Education, Primitive Human resource developmentCiter ce document
David de La Croix et al., « The Academic Market and the Rise of Universities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1000-1800) », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.kl3p9t
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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).