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The role of connections in academic promotions

Zinovyeva, Natalia; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2012

This paper analyzes the role of connections in academic promotions. We exploit evidence from centralized evaluations in Spain, where evaluators are randomly assigned to promotion committees. We find that prior connections between candidates and evaluators have a dramatic impact on candidates'...

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Publish or perish? : incentives and careers in Italian academia

Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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Academic careers and fertility decisions

De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021

We investigate how academic promotions affect the propensity of women to have a child. We use administrative data on the universe of female assistant professors employed in Italian universities from 2001 to 2018. We estimate a model with individual fixed effects and find that promotion to...

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Does the girl next door affect your academic outcomes and career choices?

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2018

Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major. Given that students are assigned to schools based on...

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Early career research production in economics : does mentoring matter?

García, Andrés; Otero, Jesús G.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2018

We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...

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The gender pay gap at the early stages of academic careers

Magda, Iga; Bieliński, Jacek; Feldy, Marzena; … - 2024

The number of countries that have devoted time and attention to establishing gender equality regulations in academia is increasing. However, various studies indicate that women remain underrepresented among tenured faculty and in senior positions, and that female academic staff earn less than...

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Unraveling the gender wage gap : exploring early career patterns among university graduates

Sandner, Malte; Yükselen, Ipek - 2024

graduates with master's degrees or equivalent from a large German university to detailed employment records from the German …

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Do vocational high school graduates have better employment outcomes than general high school graduates?

Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2017

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to … employment likelihood relative to GHS degree. However, once we include town-specific socio-economic variables to control for … education, employment, and business activity levels in the town, the IV estimates get much smaller and become statistically …

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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001 - 2010

O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates … supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …

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The family gap in career progression

Kunze, Astrid - 2014

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals' position in their career hierarchy as well as a direct measure of their promotions....

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