What Do Australian Economics PhDs Do? The UWA Experience

Kenneth Clements; Jiawei Si

What Do Australian Economics PhDs Do? The UWA Experience

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We use a survey of recent economics PhD graduates from The University of Western Australia to report how long the degree took, what they publish from theses, what they do subsequently to graduation and how they evaluate their substantial investment in the PhD. The average student takes four years to complete, two publications emerge from the average thesis, more than half the graduates go into academic positions, and the unemployment rate is zero.

Original language	English
Publisher	UWA Business School
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Name	Economics Discussion Papers
No.	16
Volume	17

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