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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 ...
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, ...