Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193270 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11976
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected that both advisory quality and rank of the graduation institution are positively related to the academic productivity of graduates. However, students in top institutions do not benefit from working with the most productive academics, unless they become co-authors. For students in non-top institutions, being advised by the best academics is always associated with a higher research output. Possible explanations for this difference can be advising styles, with advisors in top-institutions devoting less time to their advisees unless they are co-authors, or a larger role of learning from peers, relative to advisors, in top-institutions.
Subjects: 
academic career
research performance
RePEC
economic research
JEL: 
A11
I23
J11
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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