Like father(s), like son(s): Does the Relation between Advisor and Student Productivity Persist on Group Level?

Susanne Breuninger, Kerstin Pull and Birgit Pferdmenges
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Birgit Unger

Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management, 2012, vol. 26, issue 4, 331-345

Abstract: In light of the trend towards the Anglo-Saxon model of structured PhD education we analyze whether the positive relation between supervisor research productivity and young researcher productivity does persist in research groups where several PhD and postdoctoral students are supervised by a team of cooperating senior researchers. Our empirical analysis is based on a data set of 86 research training groups from different disciplinary fields funded by the German Research Foundation. We find that the positive relation between supervisor and student productivity also holds on group level. Controlling for group composition with respect to students’ study background and demographics (age, gender and cultural background), we find evidence for age and gender diversity effects. Our results prove to be robust to a whole set of additional control variables such as group size, disciplinary field and advisor-student ratio.

Keywords: research productivity; research groups; group composition; supervision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 M12 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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