The Impact of Labor Demand on Time to the Doctorate

Autor/in	Groen, Jeffrey A.
Titel	The Impact of Labor Demand on Time to the Doctorate
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 11 (2016) 1, S.43-69 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/EDFP_a_00177
Schlagwörter	Labor Needs; Doctoral Programs; Time to Degree; Occupational Information; Statistical Analysis; Statistical Distributions; Statistical Studies; Humanities; Social Sciences; Economic Impact; Educational Benefits; Outcome Measures; Computation; Student Records; Correlation; Employment Opportunities; Labor Supply + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labour needs; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Doktorandenprogramm; Berufsinformation; Statistische Analyse; Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilung; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Ökonomische Determinanten; Bildungsertrag; Schülerakte; Korrelation; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Labour Supply; Arbeitskräfteangebot
Abstract	The goal of this paper is to estimate the impact of labor demand on time to the doctorate. Empirical investigation of this relationship in previous research was hampered by the difficulty of measuring labor demand. I construct a measure of labor demand in seven fields in the humanities and social sciences based on the annual number of job listings from 1975 to 2005. My empirical strategy relates variation over time in the number of job listings within a field to the timing of completion using student-level data on all doctorates awarded in these fields by U.S. universities. Estimates indicate that the number of job listings is not correlated with expected time to degree. This finding implies that cyclical variation in labor demand is not responsible for changes in time to degree within fields. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01