Abstract
The Excellence Initiative was the largest competitive funding procedure to create German world-class universities and overcome the traditional Humboldtian homogenization of German higher education. This paper examines whether the Excellence Initiative has spurred financial inequality in the national higher education sector. For a period of 15 years, we analyze the third-party funding success of 78 universities that were either winning or losing in the competition. We find that the Excellence Initiative augmented pre-existing differences in third-party funding across institutions. However, this is a one-off level effect that does not initiate a further self-reinforcing divergence process as would be suggested by Matthew effects.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Faculties: | Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
ISSN: | 0952-8733 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 112922 |
Date Deposited: | 02. Apr 2024, 07:43 |
Last Modified: | 02. Apr 2024, 07:43 |