UnivProd: A University Production Dataset
10 Pages Posted: 1 Apr 2022
Date Written: January 9, 2022
Abstract
UnivProd is a dataset that quantifies two key production measures for universities: research (academic publications) and education (graduated students). It combines data from three primary sources: Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), the Delta cost project, and Chetty et al. income tax data. Two quality measures compliment the raw production measures: citations per paper provides a quality measure for research output and the mid-career salary of undergraduate alumni provides a quality measure for education output. Entries (or rows) in the dataset are "indexed" by institution ID and academic year.
Keywords: Production Function, Microsoft Academic Graph
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