Women comprise less than a quarter of full professors in STEM departments in United States universities, yet women outnumber men at the assistant professor level, underscoring the imbalanced representation of women in the academic career pipeline. In this paper, we present the results of a...

This paper investigates the appropriateness of the pipeline metaphor and its appropriateness to the careers of individuals with Ph.D.s in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) discipline. Using longitudinal data that follows the first 7-9 years of post-conferral employment among...

This paper examines the bias arising from individuals' migration from administrative outcome data, with a focus on the labor market consequences of postsecondary education. We find that out-of-state migration is particularly problematic for high-earners, flagship graduates, and certain majors....