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Labor Market for New Ph.D.s in 2002

Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01)

This paper reports results from a survey of the labor market experience of the 2001-02 class of Ph.D. economists. We estimate that 850 economics Ph.D.s were awarded by U.S. universities in 2001-02, down about 100 from five ...

Undergraduate Financial Aid and Subsequent Alumni Giving Behavior

Dugan, Kelly; Mullin, Charles H.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2000)

Data on 2,822 Vanderbilt University graduates are used to investigate alumni giving behavior during the eight years after graduation. A two stage model accounting for incidental truncation is used to first estimate the ...

Does Teaching Load Affect Faculty Size?

Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...

The College Football Association Television Broadcase Cartel

Siegfried, John J.; Burba, Molly Gardner (Vanderbilt University, 2003)

The College Football Association (CFA) sold rights to broadcast live games of its members from 1984 through 1995. It competed directly with the Big Ten and Pac Ten universities that sold an alternative broadcast package. ...

Thinking About Competitive Balance

Sanderson, Allen R.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)

Simon Rottenberg long ago noted that the nature of sports is such that competitors must be of approximately equal ability if any are to be financially successful. In recent years, sports commentators and fans, Major League ...

Where Do the Children Of Professors Attend College?

Siegfried, John J.; Getz, Malcolm (Vanderbilt University, 2003)

To ask whether the best-informed consumers of higher education, the faculty, make different choices than other similarly endowed consumers, we compare the pattern of colleges chosen by 5,592 children of college and university ...

The Sensitivity of Capital Use to Price in Higher Education

Getz, Malcolm; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...

The Labor Market for New Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics Ph.D.s

Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2005)

This paper describes the characteristics and labor market experiences of new agricultural and natural resource (ANR) economics Ph.D.s, based on surveys of graduates in 1996-97 and 2001-02. An average of 185 new Ph.D.s in ...

International Trends in Economics Degrees During the 1990s.

Siegfried, John J.; Round, David K. (Vanderbilt University, 2000)

Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States experienced a substantial decline in undergraduate degrees in economics from 1992 through 1996, followed immediately by a modest recovery. This cycle does not conform to ...

Creating a Standards-Based Economics Principles Course

Hansen, W. Lee; Salemi, Michael K.; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...