This is a really impressive dataset, and also very limited. I would be fascinated to see a similar retrospective cohort analysis of scholars who matriculated into PhD programs, say, 15 years ago. Race, class, ability, caregiving, and relative positional prestige...

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#Academic exodus Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade (defined as ceasing to publish). with the share of the leavers being consistently lower for men and higher for women. #womeninSTEM link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I also acknowledge how much work it would be to get those data, so please consider this a methodological musing rather than a criticism of the work done in this paper