Despite increasing representation in graduate training programs, a disproportionate number
of women leave academic research without obtaining an independent position that enables …

We develop a revealed preference approach to elicit science and engineering PhDs'
preferences over employment outcomes, exploiting cohort size variations. Depending on …

We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals' decisions to
bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine …

We explore factors that lead students and postdoctoral scholars who train outside their
native country to come to the United States rather than go to a third country for study. We use …

Abstract A National Institutes of Health (NIH) taskforce recently recommended decreasing
the number of graduate students supported on research assistantships, and instead favoring …

A well‐written application for funding in support of basic biological or biomedical research or
individual training fellowship requires that the author perform several functions well. They …

Is the labor market for US researchers experiencing the best or worst of times? This paper
analyzes the market for recently minted Ph. D. recipients using supply-and-demand logic …

Training of doctoral students as part of the next generation of the biomedical workforce is
essential for sustaining the scientific enterprise in the United States. Training primarily …

In 2016, only 7 percent of African American and Hispanic students earned research
doctorates in the critical disciplines of engineering, computing, and the physical sciences. In …

We examine effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers'(postdocs)
productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US. We …