Life-Cycle, Effort and Academic Inactivity
It has been observed that university professors sometimes become less research active in their later years. This paper models the decision to become inactive as a utility maximising problem under conditions of uncertainty and derives an age-dependent activity condition for the level of research prod...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:edn:sirdps:268 2024-04-14T08:13:41+00:00 Life-Cycle, Effort and Academic Inactivity Chen, Yu-Fu Zoeg, Gylfi http://hdl.handle.net/10943/268 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10943/268 preprint ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:40:58Z It has been observed that university professors sometimes become less research active in their later years. This paper models the decision to become inactive as a utility maximising problem under conditions of uncertainty and derives an age-dependent activity condition for the level of research productivity. The model implies that professors who are close to retirement age are more likely to become inactive when faced with setbacks in their research while those who continue research do not lower their activity levels. Using data from the University of Iceland, we find support for the model’s predictions. The model suggests that universities should induce their older faculty to remain research active by striving to make their research more productive and enjoyable, maintaining peer pressure, reducing job security and offering higher performance related pay. Inactivity, aging, optimal stopping Report Iceland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
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It has been observed that university professors sometimes become less research active in their later years. This paper models the decision to become inactive as a utility maximising problem under conditions of uncertainty and derives an age-dependent activity condition for the level of research productivity. The model implies that professors who are close to retirement age are more likely to become inactive when faced with setbacks in their research while those who continue research do not lower their activity levels. Using data from the University of Iceland, we find support for the model’s predictions. The model suggests that universities should induce their older faculty to remain research active by striving to make their research more productive and enjoyable, maintaining peer pressure, reducing job security and offering higher performance related pay. Inactivity, aging, optimal stopping |
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