title: Wrapping it up in a person: Examining employment and earnings outcomes for Ph.D. recipients.
abstract: In evaluating research investments, it is important to establish whether the expertise gained by researchers in conducting their projects propagates into the broader economy. For eight universities, it was possible to combine data from the UMETRICS project, which provided administrative records on graduate students supported by funded research, with data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The analysis covers 2010-2012 earnings and placement outcomes of people receiving doctorates in 2009-2011. Almost 40% of supported doctorate recipients, both federally and nonfederally funded, entered industry and, when they did, they disproportionately got jobs at large and high-wage establishments in high-tech and professional service industries. Although Ph.D. recipients spread nationally, there was also geographic clustering in employment near the universities that trained and employed the researchers. We also show large differences across fields in placement outcomes.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, USA.
authors.forename: Nikolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zolas
authors.affiliation: U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, USA.
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Goldschlag
authors.affiliation: U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, USA.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jarmin
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Box 3992, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-3992, USA. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-5398, USA.
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stephan
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan, 500 South State Street, no. 3001, Ann Arbor, MI 48103-1382, USA.
authors.forename: Jason Owen-
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: New York University, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.affiliation: Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), 1819 South Neil, Suite D, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara McFadden
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Ohio State University, 1945 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-5398, USA. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Schaumburg-LippeStrasse 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany. weinberg.27@osu.edu.
authors.forename: Bruce A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Weinberg
authors.affiliation: U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, USA. New York University, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, USA Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Schaumburg-LippeStrasse 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany. University of Strasbourg, 61 Avenue de la Forêt Noire, 67 085 Strasbourg, France. American Institutes for Research, 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street, Washington, DC 20007, USA.
authors.forename: Julia I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Lane