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Are High-Quality PhD Programs at Universities Associated with More Undergraduate Students Pursuing PhD Study? / Todd R. Jones, Ronald G. Ehrenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Todd R.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22372.
- NBER working paper series no. w22372
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- This paper investigates which attributes of a Carnegie PhD-level institution predict the share of its undergraduate BA recipients that will earn a PhD. Four broad PhD fields are studied: humanities, physical sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. We use restricted-access, individual-level Survey of Earned Doctorates data to determine both where and when PhD recipients received their BA, and truncation-correction methodology to account for PhD receipt after the data end. Across fields, we find that PhD production is positively related to the number of highly-ranked PhD programs an institution has, suggesting such departments may play a dual role in both producing PhDs as well as encouraging undergraduates to earn PhDs themselves. We also find that PhD production is negatively related to the total number of students and the share of total BAs that are received in the field, and is positively related to student test scores.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2016.
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