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Direct linkStock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2015
The authors update prior analyses of the undergraduate origins of individuals who earn a PhD in economics in the United States. They include the list of the top institutions worldwide graduating the largest number of undergraduates who subsequently earn an economics PhD from a U.S. university and lists of American institutions with the largest…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Economics Education, Doctoral Degrees, Probability
Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
In this article, the authors summarize their 15 years of research on graduate education in economics in the United States. They examine all stages of the process, from the undergraduate origins of eventual economics PhDs to their attrition and time-to-degree outcomes. For PhD completers, the authors examine job market outcomes, research…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Economics, Educational Research, Graduate Study
Stock, Wendy A.; Finegan, T. Aldrich; Siegfried, John J. – Economics of Education Review, 2009
We investigate graduate school outcomes for students who entered economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2002. Students in Top-15 ranked programs and those with higher verbal and quantitative GRE scores are less likely to have dropped out, but no more likely to have graduated. Those with undergraduate degrees from Top-60 U.S. liberal arts colleges and…
Descriptors: Probability, Liberal Arts, Graduate Study, Doctoral Degrees
Siegfried, John J.; Stock, Wendy A.; Walstad, William – Journal of Economic Education, 2007
The authors document the types of undergraduate colleges and universities attended by those who earned a doctorate in economics from an American university from 1966 through 2003. They examine relationships between type of undergraduate institution and attrition and time-to-degree in PhD programs. The total number of new economics PhDs awarded to…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Doctoral Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Trend Analysis
Download full textSiegfried, John J.; Stock, Wendy A. – 2000
The elapsed time taken to earn a Ph.D. in economics is analyzed with data from 620 (of about 950) 1996-1997 Ph.D.s. The median is 5.3 years. A duration model indicates that those students at several of the most highly regarded programs, those supported by no-work fellowships, and those holding a prior master's degree finish faster than others.…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Economics, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedSiegfried, John J.; Stock, Wendy A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2001
A study of the time it took 618 students to earn Ph.D.s in economics found that those with fellowships or prior master's degrees finished faster. Those who took jobs before completion and women with children took longer. No differences appeared in relation to marital status, gender, age, and program size. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Economics, Graduate Study, Higher Education
