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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...