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. Journal of Political Economy, 118 (4). pp. 787-831. ISSN 0022-3808

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpe/current
Additional Information:	© 2010 University of Chicago
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2016 14:53
Last Modified:	20 Nov 2024 04:33
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68325

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