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Quality matters: the expulsion of professors and Ph.D. student outcomes in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian (2010) Quality matters: the expulsion of professors and Ph.D. student outcomes in Nazi Germany. CEP Discussion Paper (985). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

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Abstract

I investigate the effect of faculty quality on Ph.D. student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. I find that faculty quality is a very important determinant of short and long run Ph.D. 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 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.

Item Type: Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/
Additional Information: © 2010 The author
Divisions: Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
D History General and Old World > DD Germany
L Education > L Education (General)
JEL classification: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education
J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I21 - Analysis of Education
N - Economic History > N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income, and Wealth > N34 - Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Income and Wealth: Europe: 1913-
Date Deposited: 22 Jul 2010 14:21
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 23:20
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/28737

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