Determinants of Ph.D. progression: student’s abilities and lab local environment.

Autor/inn/en	Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Tohru; Shibayama, Sotaro
Titel	Determinants of Ph.D. progression: student’s abilities and lab local environment.
Quelle	In: Higher education, (2022) 3, S.693-718Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-022-00925-6
Schlagwörter	Ph.D. training; Doctoral education; Academic career; Mentoring style; Ph.D. progression
Abstract	Abstract Ph.D. training is an important mechanism for developing scientists who will serve our knowledge-based society. Because the quality of students who join Ph.D. programs significantly impacts the outcome of Ph.D. training, students’ career choices at this initial stage—whether to proceed to Ph.D. or not—are of crucial interest. This study investigates how students’ attributes and the local lab environment influence their career choices using a unique empirical design in the Japanese graduate education context. The results show that students with high scientific abilities are more likely to proceed to Ph.D., and that students are more likely to proceed to Ph.D. if the lab has a favorable local environment for research and for training. Importantly, the findings suggest that students’ abilities and local environments interactively shape their career choices. In particular, high-ability students are drawn to local environments with high training capacities, whereas low-ability students are attracted to local environments with high research capacities.
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Update	2024/1/01