Quality Matters: The Expulsion of Professors and the Consequences for PhD Student Outcomes in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian (2010): Quality Matters: The Expulsion of Professors and the Consequences for PhD Student Outcomes in Nazi Germany. In: Journal of Political Economy, Bd. 118, Nr. 4: S. 787-831

Abstract

I investigate the effect of faculty quality on PhD student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. Faculty quality is a very important determinant of short- and long-run PhD student outcomes. A one-standard-deviation increase in faculty quality increases the probability of publishing the dissertation in a top journal by 13 percentage points, the probability of becoming a full professor by 10 percentage points, the probability of having positive lifetime citations by 16 percentage points, and the number of lifetime citations by 6.3.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft ; 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 900 Geschichte
• ISSN: 1537-534X; 0022-3808
• Sprache: Englisch