Evaluating Professor Value-added: Evidence from Professor and Student Matching in Physics

Yuta Kikuchi and Ryo Nakajima
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Yuta Kikuchi: GISS, Yokohama National University

No 2016-002, Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series from Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University

Abstract: This paper estimates a professor's value added to a postgraduate student's research achievement growth using unique panel data on matched advisor-advisee pairs in a world-leading physics graduate program. To address an identification problem related to the endogenous selection of advisors and advisees, we use professor turnover and estimate a semi-parametric lower bound of the variance in advisor quality affecting advisee research performance. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in professor quality results in a 0.54 standard deviation increase in a doctoral student's research achievement growth, increasing the number of first-authored papers that are published in top journals by 0.64 at the doctoral level.

Keywords: knowledge creation; postgraduate education; faculty quality; research apprenticeship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 I23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65 pages
Date: 2016-02-05
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