Is there a gender hiring gap in academic economics?
- We collect a network dataset of tenured economics faculty in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. We rank the 100 institutions included with a minimum violation ranking. This ranking is positively and significantly correlated with the Times Higher Education ranking of economics institutions. According to the network ranking, individuals on average go down about 23 ranks from their doctoral institution to their employing institution. While the share of females in our dataset is only 15%, we do not observe a significant gender hiring gap (a difference in rank changes between male and female faculty). We conduct a robustness check with the Handelsblatt and the Times Higher Education ranking. According to these rankings, individuals on average go down only about two ranks. We do not observe a significant gender hiring gap using these two rankings (although the dataset underlying this analysis is small and these estimates are likely to be noisy). Finally, we discuss the limitations of the network ranking in our context.
Author details: | Andreas OrlandORCiDGND, Max Padubrin |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210717 |
ISSN: | 2054-5703 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35154788 |
Title of parent work (English): | Royal Society Open Science |
Subtitle (English): | evidence from a network analysis |
Publisher: | Royal Society |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/02/09 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2023/05/15 |
Tag: | academia; gender; networks |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Article number: | 210717 |
Number of pages: | 9 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation); [491466077]; Open Access Publication Fund of University of Potsdam |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |