Research Similarity and Women in Academia.

Autor/inn/en	Bello, Piera; Casarico, Alessandra; Nozza, Debora
Institution	CESifo GmbH
Titel	Research Similarity and Women in Academia. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ähnlichkeit in der Forschung und Frauen in der akademischen Welt.
Quelle	München (2023), 43 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 10657
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Forschungsergebnis; Geschlechterbeziehung; Personalauswahl; Personalmanagement; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Berufung; Hochschullehrer; Wirtschaftswissenschaft; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Geschlechterverteilung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Veröffentlichung; Wirtschaftswissenschaftler; Italien
Abstract	"We investigate the extent to which research similarity between senior and junior researchers influences promotion in academia and study its implications in terms of gender diversity among faculty. Using data on the universe of job applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in economics in Italy and exploiting NLP techniques (i.e., document embeddings) on the abstract of each publication of the scholars in our dataset, we propose a novel measure of research similarity, which can capture closeness in research topics, methodologies or policy relevance between candidates and members of selection committees. We show that the level of similarity is strongly associated with the winning probability. Moreover, while there are no gender differences in average similarity, maximum similarity with members of the selection committee is lower for female candidates. This gender gap disappears when similarity is calculated only focusing on female members of the committee. The results suggest that similarity bias in male-dominated environments can have implications for gender and research diversity." The study refers to the period 2014-2021. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1