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The Undergraduate Origins of Ph.D. Economists
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
We document the types of undergraduate colleges and universities attended by those who earned a doctorate in economics from an American university from 1966 through 2003 and examine relationships between type of undergraduate ...
The Economic Impact of Colleges and Universities
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
This essay describes methodological approaches and pitfalls common to studies of the economic impact of colleges and universities. Such studies often claim local benefits that imply annualized rates of return on local ...
International Real Business Cycles
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
This paper is a non-technical review of research developments in the international real business cycle literature. International business cycle facts are summarize with particular attention to the sources of output variance ...
Relaxing Tax Competition through Public Good Differentiation
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
This paper argues that, because governments are able to relax tax competition through public good differentiation, traditionally high-tax countries have continued to set taxes at a relatively high rate even as markets have ...
Matriculation In Economics Us Ph.D. Programs: How Many Accepted Americans Do Not Enroll?
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Using a sample of 26 U.S. economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2003, we estimate that only about 12 percent of the U.S. and Canadian students accepted for doctoral study did not enroll in any U.S. economics Ph.D. program in ...
Where Are They Now? Tracking the Ph.D. Class of 1997
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
We report early career outcomes of economics Ph.D.s by tracking the U.S. class of 1996-97. We examine employment outcomes, work activities, salaries, and graduates' attitudes toward their jobs. By 2003, all of the respondents ...
Simon Rottenberg and Baseball, Then and Now: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Fifty years ago the JPE published Simon Rottenberg's "The Baseball Players' Labor Market", the first professional journal article in sports economics. In this retrospective we review some of his insights and analyses with ...
Measuring the Impact of Intervention on Exchange Market Pressure
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: In this article, we introduce an index of ex ante exchange market pressure (EMP) that can be used as a benchmark against which to measure the effectiveness of sterilized intervention. Ex ante EMP is the change ...
Social Choice: Recent Developments
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to ...
Attrition in Economics Ph.D. Programs
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Information about 586 individuals who matriculated into 27 economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2002 is used to estimate first and second year attrition rates. After two years, 26.5 percent of the initial cohort had left, ...