Postdoctoral fellows (postdocs) comprise a large sector of the US scientific workforce. A
substantial majority of postdocs are in a holding pattern, seeking tenure‐track assistant …

We model the education-workforce pipeline and offer an endogenous theory of
professionalization and ever-higher degree attainment. We introduce two mechanisms that …

While behavioral and social sciences occupations comprise one of the largest portions of
the “STEM” workforce, most studies of diversity in STEM overlook this population, focusing …

It was a cold rainy day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Navid was working in his office at E40,
one of MIT's oldest buildings. E40 used to be a factory in the 1930s and was now hosting a …

Purpose The postdoctoral position was originally created as a short training period for PhD
holders on the path to becoming university professors; however, the single-purpose …

We reflect on our past 7 years of collaboration to develop systems models of US higher
education and scientific workforce development. Based on three recent modeling examples …

Objective The growing shortage of anatomy educators along with inconsistencies regarding
their educational qualifications has become a major global concern for medical education …

Prior studies of academic science have largely focused on researchers in life sciences or
engineering. However, while academic researchers often work under similar institutions …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamics of cross-disciplinary research in
health-related fields as affected by individual and institutional factors. We examine the topics …

We use the labor market for doctorates in the biomedical sciences, where career dislocation
is common, as a case study of skill-task mismatch and its consequences. Using longitudinal …