Quality Matters: The Expulsion of Professors and the Consequences for PhD Student Outcomes in Nazi Germany

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Waldinger, Fabian
• 署名单位: University of Warwick
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/655976
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 787-831
• 关键词: college quality; identification; instruments

摘要

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.