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WHAT DO AUSTRALIAN ECONOMICS PhDs DO? THE UWA EXPERIENCE

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  • Kenneth Clements

    (Business School, The University of Western Australia)

  • Jiawei Si

    (Business School, The University of Western Australia)

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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.

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  • Kenneth Clements & Jiawei Si, 2017. "WHAT DO AUSTRALIAN ECONOMICS PhDs DO? THE UWA EXPERIENCE," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 17-16, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
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    1. Kenneth W. Clements & Patricia Wang, 2003. "Who Cites What?," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 79(245), pages 229-244, June.
    2. Wendy A. Stock & John J. Siegfried, 2014. "Fifteen Years of Research on Graduate Education in Economics: What Have we Learned?," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(4), pages 287-303, December.
    3. Kenneth W. Clements & Patricia Wang, 2003. "Who Cites What?," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 79(245), pages 229-244, June.
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