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Waldinger, Fabian (2010): Quality Matters: The Expulsion of Professors and the Consequences for PhD Student Outcomes in Nazi Germany. In: Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 118, No. 4: pp. 787-831

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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.

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