PhDArticles {stagedtrees}

PhD Students Publications

Description

Number of publications of 915 PhD biochemistry students during the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Usage

PhDArticles

Format

A data frame with 915 rows and 6 variables:

Articles

Number of articles during the last 3 years of PhD: either 0, 1-2 or >2.

Gender

male or female.

Kids

yes if the student has at least one kid 5 or younger, no otherwise.

Married

yes or no.

Mentor

Number of publications of the student's mentor: low between 0 and 3, medium between 4 and 10, high otherwise.

Prestige

low if the student is at a low-prestige university, high otherwise.

Source

The data has been modified from the Rchoice package.

References

Long, J. S. (1990). The origins of sex differences in science. Social Forces, 68(4), 1297-1316.