Is there a gender hiring gap in academic economics? Evidence from a network analysis.

ABSTRACT: 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 sig

SUBMITTER: Orland A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826301 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature