This article outlines a practical standard of university economic impact analyses for small colleges. The needs of small colleges greatly differ from those of large universities, as they are typically dependent on in-house resources to conduct economic impact analyses. These financial limitations create a need for suitable, publicly available data that can substitute for primary, costly data collection, as well as guidelines on best practices for researchers or practitioners who may not be experts in input–output methodology. The article reviews the foundations of economic impact analysis and then discusses fundamental modeling decisions. The suggested practices are illustrated using two small colleges in Ohio as case studies.

本文概述了针对小型学院的大学经济影响分析的实用标准。小型学院的需求与大型大学的需求大不相同，因为它们通常依赖内部资源来进行经济影响分析。这些财务限制产生了对合适的、公开可用的数据的需求，这些数据可以替代主要的、昂贵的数据收集，以及为可能不是投入产出方法专家的研究人员或从业者提供最佳实践指南。本文回顾了经济影响分析的基础，然后讨论了基本的建模决策。建议的做法是使用俄亥俄州的两所小型大学作为案例研究来说明的。