Utilizing an original data set containing annual salaries and peer-reviewed publication histories for 328 faculty members we examine the labor market for academic agricultural economists. Our descriptive analysis shows that while the profession remains male-dominated, females are making...

We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...

"We examine a unique data set containing information on a PhD recipient's dissertation advisor, graduate program, and early career publishing success. Regressions controlling for the ranking of both the student's graduate program and dissertation advisor confirm that, all else equal, students...

We use a unique data set on students receiving their Ph.D.s from top-ranked agricultural and resource economics programs to investigate how the ranking of a student's dissertation advisor affects his or her early career research productivity. After controlling for program reputation, we find...

The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, February 2007, Volume 89, Issue 1.

This paper examines the returns to institutional quality for all institutions attended by college transfer students and asks whether such an analysis provides insight into the role of human capital accumulation in determining a college graduate's entry-level earnings. Exploiting panel data...