Volume 16, Number 3 (Summer) 1981
Hogan, Timothy D. 1981. "Faculty Research Activity and the Quality of Graduate Training." Journal of Human Resources 16(3):400-415.
This study examines the relationships between program size, the quality of entrants and of the faculty, the faculty's published research output, and the average quality of the PhDs during the 1960s trained by the top 36 U.S. graduate programs in economics. The empirical evidence supports the hypotheses (1) that faculty research activity contributes positively to the quality of graduate training, and (2) that the quality of the input to a PhD program-that is, the quality of entering students-is significantly related to quality of the PhDs produced by that program.
The author is Associate Professor of Economics and Research Associate,
Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Arizona State University.
* The author would like to thank H. Ronald Roose and Judith L. Pinch of the
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for their help in obtaining the
fellowshp data utilized in this study. The author would like to acknowledge
support from the Arizona State University College of Business Administration
Research Incentive Fund for financial support to defray the costs of obtaining
the fellowship data. Further thanks also go to the anonymous referees for their
useful suggestions and to John J. Siegfried, David Breneman, and John McDowell
for the ideas they contributed during the initial stages of this project.
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