Affiliation:
1. School of Higher Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China
Abstract
The “double first-class” construction policy is an educational policy in China for building the world first-class universities and disciplines. The research objective of this paper is to verify the effect of “double first-class” construction policy. The Propensity Score Matching–Difference in Differences (PSM–DID) method was employed to gauge the academic influence of the policy. PSM–DID is a metering method specifically used to analyze the effectiveness of the policy to determine whether the impact of the policy has significant statistical significance. The panel data, covering the years 2016–2020, was derived from 122 universities in China and the United States, indicating the experimental and control data, respectively. The results show that the “double first-class” construction policy promotes the international academic influence of Chinese universities, but this promotion effect is not sustainable.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
The education of China in the of Humanities and Social Sciences
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction
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