Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment

This paper describes the progress, eight years after matriculating, of 586 individuals who entered one of 27 economics Ph.D. programs in fall 2002. By October 2010, 59 percent of the fall 2002 entering cohort had earned a Ph.D. in economics at the university where they initially matriculated, 37 per...

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Main Authors: Poterba, James M., Stock, Wendy A., Siegfried, John J., Finegan, T. Aldrich, Colander, David, Mankiw, N. Gregory
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73049
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998