Quality matters: The expulsion of professors and the consequences for PhD student outcomes in Nazi Germany

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 787-831

  Waldinger, Fabian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; HIGHER EDUCATION; STUDENT; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

GERMANY;

EID: 77958507813     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655976     Document Type: Article

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