Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Siegfried, John J."
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Stock, Wendy A.; Finegan, T. Aldrich; Siegfried, John J. (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, ...
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Stock, Wendy A.; Finegan, T. Aldrich; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Finegan, T. Aldrich; Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...
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Sanderson, Allen R.; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...
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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. ...
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Siegfried, John J.; Sanderson, Allen R.; McHenry, Peter (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 ...
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Siegfried, John J. (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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Siegfried, John J.; Stock, Wendy A. (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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...
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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 ...