A revealed preference analysis of PhD students' choices over employment outcomes

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1931-1947

  Conti, Annamaria ^a   Visentin, Fabiana ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cohort size effects; Employment choices; PhD students; Revealed preferences

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES; PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY; RESEARCH FIELDS; REVEALED PREFERENCE; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SIZE EFFECTS; SIZE VARIATION;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84945254378     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.06.009     Document Type: Article

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