November 2013
In a study on over 36 000 doctorates in the US in 2010, Kevin Kniffin and Andrew Hanks – two Cornell postdocs – found that young doctors who completed an interdisciplinary PhD research project and dissertation on average earned $1 700 in their first job less than those who completed dissertations in a single field. The correlation was found after controlling for discipline, age, gender and ethnicity.
Report available through kees.kouwenaar@vu.nl.
November 11, 2013
