Does teaching load affect faculty size?

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Random effects estimates using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 16 years reveal that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty increases at almost a one-for-one pace as the average number of Ph.D.s grows. Faculty size at Ph.D. granting universities is largely unresponsive to changes in the number of undergraduate economics degrees awarded at those institutions. In contrast, faculty size at colleges where a bachelor's is the highest degree awarded is responsive to the average number of economics degrees awarded annually, growing by about one for each additional eleven graduating economics majors.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3996

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: Undergraduate ; Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: Graduate ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
• Subject: Faculty size ; student body ; Ph.D. degrees ; bachelor degrees ; Wirtschaftshochschule ; Betriebsgröße ; Wirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftswissenschaftler ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Becker, William E. ; Greene, William H. ; Siegfried, John J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35516
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090304668
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET