{"id":25564,"date":"2026-10-16T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/needed-establish-universities-caused-specific-increase-new-technology-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:29:40","slug":"needed-establish-universities-caused-specific-increase-new-technology-jobs","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/needed-establish-universities-caused-specific-increase-new-technology-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"What would be needed to establish that universities caused a specific increase in New Jersey technology jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What would be needed to establish that universities caused a specific increase in New Jersey technology jobs?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>A simple correlation between the number of universities and technology employers<\/li>\n<li>Evidence identifying causal effects beyond geographic co-location<\/li>\n<li>An industry press release stating that local graduates are highly skilled<\/li>\n<li>The geographic proximity of universities to firms in a single map<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","subject":[3258],"topic":[3975,4002],"education_level":[1897],"class_list":["post-25564","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","subject-us-economy","topic-new-jersey-facts","topic-regional-economic-analysis","education_level-graduate"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Co-location of universities and technology firms does not alone prove that universities caused particular levels of economic growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The presence of universities near technology employers does not establish that universities caused employment growth. Causal analysis needs credible comparisons, timing, mechanisms, and alternative explanations. Designs using credible control groups or natural experiments can strengthen causal inference.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"A simple correlation between the number of universities and technology employers"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Evidence identifying causal effects beyond geographic co-location"},{"right":"no","answer":"An industry press release stating that local graduates are highly skilled"},{"right":"no","answer":"The geographic proximity of universities to firms in a single map"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3258,"title":"U.S. Economy","slug":"us-economy"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3975,"title":"New Jersey Facts","slug":"new-jersey-facts"},{"id":4002,"title":"Regional Economic Analysis","slug":"regional-economic-analysis"}],"education_level_terms":[{"id":1897,"title":"Graduate","slug":"graduate"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/25564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=25564"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=25564"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=25564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}