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Labor Market for New Ph.D.s in 2002
(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 ...
International Trends in Economics Degrees During the 1990s.
(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 ...
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 ...
The College Football Association Television Broadcase Cartel
(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
(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?
(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 Economics of Regional Economics Associations
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
Membership and conference attendance trends of regional economics associations are reported and analyzed. Although membership and conference attendance grow steadily at the American Economic Association, both are stagnant ...
The Labor Market for New Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics Ph.D.s
(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 ...
Undergraduate Financial Aid and Subsequent Alumni Giving Behavior
(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 ...