2009/12 | LEM Working Paper Series | |
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Stimulating Graduates' Research-Oriented Careers: Does Academic Research Matter ? |
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Mauro Sylos Labini, Natalia Zinovyeva |
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Academic research, labor market for scientist, post-graduate education
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I23, O30, O38
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Abstract | ||
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This paper investigates whether the quality of higher education and,
in particular, its research performance stimulate graduates'
research-oriented careers. More specifically, exploiting a very rich
data-set on university graduates and the higher education
institutions they attended, we empirically study whether graduates
from universities and programs that display better academic research
records are more likely to be enroled in PhDs or employed as
researchers three years after graduation. Controlling for a number
of individual and university covariates and using different proxies
for research performance, we find that the likelihood of entering a
research-oriented career increases with the quality of academic
research. Notably, the inclusion of university fixed-effects shows
that this result does not stem from unobserved university
heterogeneity. Our finding is stronger for graduates in science,
medicine, and engineering.
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