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Standing on Academic Shoulders : Measuring Scientific Influence in Universities
Adams, James D. - 2004
Cross-field citation probabilities appear to be symmetric for mutually citing fields. Scientific influence is asymmetric within fields, and occurs primarily from top institutions to those less highly ranked. Still, there is significant reverse influence on higher-ranked schools. We also find...
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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment
Goodman, Joshua - 2019
We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers. Because siblings' test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options....
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
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Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education
Bound, John - 2009
The representation of a large number of students born outside the United States among the ranks of doctorate recipients from U.S. universities is one of the most significant transformations in U.S. graduate education and the international market for highly-trained workers in science and...
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Educational Mismatch Among Ph.D.s : Determinants and Consequences
Bender, Keith A. - 2006
Using the Survey of Doctoral Recipients, the magnitude and consequences of job mismatch are estimated for Ph.D.s in science. Approximately one-sixth of academics and nearly one-half of nonacademics report some degree of mismatch. The influence of job mismatch is estimated for three job outcomes:...
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Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education : What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2006
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Graduate Education Initiative (GEI) provided over $80 million to 51 treatment departments in the humanities and related social sciences during the 1990s to improve their PhD programs. Using survey data collected from students who entered the treatment and 50...
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Are High-Quality PhD Programs at Universities Associated with More Undergraduate Students Pursuing PhD Study?
Jones, Todd R. - 2016
This paper investigates which attributes of a Carnegie PhD-level institution predict the share of its undergraduate BA recipients that will earn a PhD. Four broad PhD fields are studied: humanities, physical sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. We use restricted-access,...
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Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates
Kennan, John - 2015
In the U.S. there are large differences across States in the extent to which college education is subsidized, and there are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are apparently motivated in part by the perceived benefits...
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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I present evidence that these dynamic effects are present and powerful … to the minimum wage is small on impact and grows dramatically over time. To verify my theory's mechanisms, I additionally … theory and my empirical results on the skill premium). On the basis of these theoretical and empirical results, I conclude …
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Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2003
Scientific research has come to dominate many American universities. Even with growing external support, increasingly the costs of scientific research are being funded out of internal university funds. Our paper explains why this is occuring, presents estimates of the magnitudes of start-up cost...
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