Dissertation Paths: Advisors and Students in the Economics Research Production Function
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Abstract
Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of
academic research. This paper asks how advising affects graduate students'
post-PhD research productivity. Advising is highly concentrated: at the eight
highly-selective schools in our study, a minority of advisors do most of the
advising work. We quantify advisor attributes such as an advisor's own research
output and aspects of the advising relationship like coauthoring and research
field affinity that might contribute to student research success. Students
advised by research-active, prolific advisors tend to publish more, while
coauthoring has no effect. Student-advisor research affinity also predicts
student success. But a school-level aggregate production function provides much
weaker evidence of causal effects, suggesting that successful advisors attract
students likely to succeed-without necessarily boosting their students' chances
of success. Evidence for causal effects is strongest for a measure of advisors'
own research output. Aggregate student research output appears to scale
linearly with graduate student enrollment, with no evidence of negative
class-size effects. An analysis of gender differences in research output shows
male and female graduate students to be equally productive in the first few
years post-PhD, but female productivity peaks sooner than male productivity.
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| Authors | Joshua Angrist; Marc Diederichs |
| Journal | arXiv |
| Year | 2025 |
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