The Academic Market and The Rise of Universities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1000–1800)
利用中世纪欧洲数千名学者的数据库，研究市场力量如何影响高技能人才的分布，发现学者倾向于聚集在顶尖大学，且能力越强的学者对大学质量越敏感、迁移距离越远，表明存在一个整合的学术市场。
Abstract 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 Scientific 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).