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The co-integration relation research on the number of higher education
and national economy
Yilan Dai & YiJun Liu
Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China
ABSTRACT: In this paper, based on the data of China from year 1978 to 2011, it conducts an empirical
study on the relationship between the number of China’s higher education and economic growth using the
co-integration theory. Research shows that there is no co-integration relationship between the number of
universities and China’s economic growth, and it implies that there is no a long-term equilibrium relation-
ship between the two. While the number ...