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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| author | Poterba, James M. Stock, Wendy A. Siegfried, John J. Finegan, T. Aldrich Colander, David Mankiw, N. Gregory |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Poterba, James M. Stock, Wendy A. Siegfried, John J. Finegan, T. Aldrich Colander, David Mankiw, N. Gregory |
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| description | 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 percent had dropped out, and 4 percent were still writing their dissertations.We examine student outcomes by Ph.D. program tier and investigate factors associated with completion and time to degree. We document and describe the rise in median time to degree from 5.0 to 5.6 years during the period 1996-2010. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/730492022-09-30T21:52:11Z Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs (with comments by David Colander, N. Gregory Mankiw, Melissa P. McInerney, James M. Poterba) Poterba, James M. Stock, Wendy A. Siegfried, John J. Finegan, T. Aldrich Colander, David Mankiw, N. Gregory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Poterba, James M. Poterba, James M. McInerney, Melissa P. 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 percent had dropped out, and 4 percent were still writing their dissertations.We examine student outcomes by Ph.D. program tier and investigate factors associated with completion and time to degree. We document and describe the rise in median time to degree from 5.0 to 5.6 years during the period 1996-2010. 2012-09-19T16:42:58Z 2012-09-19T16:42:58Z 2011-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0002-8282 1944-7981 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73049 Stock, Wendy A, John J Siegfried, and T. Aldrich Finegan. “Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs(with comments by David Colander, N. Gregory Mankiw, Melissa P. McInerney, James M. Poterba).” American Economic Review 101.3 (2011): 176–187. © 2011 AEA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.3.176 American Economic Review Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Economic Association American Economic Association |
| spellingShingle | Poterba, James M. Stock, Wendy A. Siegfried, John J. Finegan, T. Aldrich Colander, David Mankiw, N. Gregory Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment |
| title | Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment |
| title_full | Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment |
| title_fullStr | Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment |
| title_short | Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment |
| title_sort | completion rates and time to degree in economics phd programs comment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73049 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-0998 |
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