On the Relationship between the Student–Advisor Match and Early Career Research Productivity for Agricultural and Resource Economics Ph.D.s |
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Authors: | Christiana E Hilmer Michael J Hilmer |
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Institution: | Christiana E. Hilmer and Michael J. Hilmer are assistant professors, Department of Economics, San Diego University. |
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Abstract: | We use a unique data set on students receiving their Ph.D.s from top-ranked agricultural and resource economics programs to investigate how the ranking of a student's dissertation advisor affects his or her early career research productivity. After controlling for program reputation, we find that the higher the relative research productivity of a student's dissertation advisor the greater the student's early career research productivity. Allowing the estimated effects of advisor rank to vary with program reputation suggests that students from lower-ranked programs working with relatively more prominent advisors outperform their peers at highly ranked programs working with less prominent advisors. |
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Keywords: | advisor effect matching negative binomial production of science |
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