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Table 2 Dependent, independent variables, and descriptive statistics

From: The impact of graduate students on research productivity in Korea

Category

Index

Definition and measurement

Average (standard deviation)

Dependent Variable

Pub_1

KCI-Level Research Outcomes

0.4238119(0.4941678)

Pub_2

SCI-Level Research Outcomes

0.1497811(0.3568614)

Independent Variable

Graduate Students

Number of Graduate Students

 

Control Variable

Gender

1 = Dummy of Females

 

Grant_gov

Natural Logarithm of Government’s grants to research cost

 

Grant_pri

Natural Logarithm of the size of private grants to research cost

 

Grant_inner

Natural Logarithm of the size of inner grants to research cost

 

Age

Age

 

Age2

Age Squared

 

Nation

Dummy of Institution Trained

 

NU

Dummy of National/Public Universities

 

Region

Regional Dummy Variable

 

Cur

Dummy of Classification of disciplines

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