ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND TEACHING PRODUCTIVITIES - A CASE-STUDY

This paper uses University of Utah data on funded research output, teaching output, faculty, and student enrollment far the academic years 1991-1992 to 1993-1994 for a sample of 31 academic departments to estimate joint-product production functions. It is a micro-micro theory approach. Single equation ordinary least squares (OLS) and simultaneous equations generalized least squares (GLS) by linear structural relations (LISREL) estimating methods are used. Research and teaching productivities are compared to the Schumpeterian hypothesis relating to department size and research productivity. Falling teaching productivity and rising research productivity as faculty size increases are among the results. The time effect on production performance was not significant. Implications for the supply of basic research are discussed. Various hypotheses and implications for social policy are discussed.