A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Storm clouds for American higher education? -- Is the United States 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 US 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 US 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 Cörvers -- Higher education in China: complement or competition to US universities? / Haizheng Li -- Indian higher education / Devesh Kapur -- From brain drain to brain competition: changing opportunities and the career patterns of US-trained Korean academics / Sunwoong Kim -- Looking ahead -- What does global expansion of higher education mean for the United States? / Richard B. Freeman