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The Sensitivity of Capital Use to Price in Higher Education
(Vanderbilt University, 2004)
We test whether U.S. colleges and universities adjust their physical capital intensity to differences in factor prices by regressing the square feet of space per student on construction prices across institutions. The ...
Creating a Standards-Based Economics Principles Course
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
America's adult population is economically illiterate. College economics instruction must shoulder some of the blame for this situation. Forty percent of all college graduates take an economics course. Over 95 percent of ...
Can You Earn a Ph.D. in Economics in Five Years?
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
We investigate which of the students who entered economics Ph.D. programs in fall 2002 were more likely to earn a Ph.D. within five years, and which were more likely to have dropped out. Students enrolled in Top-15 ranked ...
Does Teaching Load Affect Faculty Size?
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average ...
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 ...
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, ...