ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on forty Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) rankings that have faculty roster listings in the 1996 Prentice Hall Guide to Economics Faculty. It describes the data and methodology and provides rankings of HBCU economics departments on the basis of research productivity and the number of undergraduates that earned a Ph.D. in economics. Forty HBCUs are ranked on the basis of eight variants of two research productivity measures. The chapter examines the possibility of a causal relationship between faculty scholarship in economics and the graduate school achievements of students, and compute correlation coefficients between research productivity measures and the number of students that earned doctorates in economics. Ranking HBCU economic departments on the basis of research productivity required the following data: a listing of economics faculty at HBCUs and an account of journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews published by the faculty.
