... make sense, since in either case the economic impact on the state and, thus, the size of the state's economy, is the same After all, the source of the impact is the new job (an expansion of the ... probably a small fraction of the total amount calcu- ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HIGHER EDUCATION 237 lated by Bluestone and others This is because the Beeson and Montgomery results show an effect on one ... (1983) The economic impact of higher education in the Yorkshire and Humberside region of England Higher Education 12: 591-596 Gana, R (1994) Estimating the Regional Economic Impact of a University...