Replication files for "Publishing, signaling, social capital, and gender: Determinants of becoming a tenured professor in German political science" (PLOS ONE)
Abstract
We apply event history analysis to analyze career and publication data of virtually all political scientists in German university departments, showing that each published refereed journal article increases a political scientist’s chance for tenure by 9 percent, while other publications affect the odds for tenure only marginally and in some cases even negatively. Each received award and third party funding increases the odds for tenure by respectively 41 and 26 percent, while international experience, social capital and children hardly have a strong influence. Surprisingly, having degrees from a German university of excellence strongly decreases the odds for tenure. Women with similar credentials have at least 20 percent higher odds to get tenure than men. Our data therefore suggests that the lower factual hiring rates of women are better explained by a leaky pipeline, e.g. women leaving academia, rather than because women are not hired even when they are as productive as men. The article contributes to a better understanding of the role of meritocratic and non-meritocratic factors in achieving highly competitive job positions.
Metadata
Date | 2020-12-09 |
Authors | Habicht,
Isabel Maria |
Contributors | Project Leader:
Schröder,
Martin, Prof |
License | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 |
Faculty | FB03:Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy |
Language | English |
Data types | Dataset Text |
Keywords | academic careers gender human capital political science signaling social capital symbolic capital tenure |
Version | 01 |
Funding | BMBF |
URI | https://data.uni-marburg.de/handle/dataumr/103
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03_Readme_Methods and data documentation.txt | .txt | 9.576Kb | fb9dae487e2beb635c5eee2e22875a30 |
01_Replicationfile_Tenured Professor in German Political Science.do | .do | 14.91Kb | d0645956de4b1389192e8163cc1c8d89 |
01_Replicationfile_Tenured Professor in German Political Science.txt | .txt | 14.91Kb | d0645956de4b1389192e8163cc1c8d89 |
02_Dataset for Analysis_only available upon request.dta | .dta | 5.009Mb | 033f734650d5f50484d537849ef41e1f |
02_Dataset for Analysis_only available upon request.csv | .csv | 7.761Mb | 468c84d99eff8ca96503564266f752be |
license_CC-BY-NC-4.0.txt | .txt | 18.88Kb | d882379f6314cc023ed84088401bbde8 |
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0