| By: |
Patric Gaule;
Mario Piacentini |
| Abstract: |
We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with
the productivity of PhD science students and their propensity to stay in
academic science. Our analysis is based on an original dataset covering nearly
20,000 PhD graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry departments. We
find that students with an advisor of the same gender tend to be more
productive during the PhD and more likely to become professors themselves. We
suggest that the under-representation of women in science and engineering
faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of
same-gender advisors for female students. |
| Keywords: |
science, gender, universities, post-graduate careers |
| JEL: |
J24 J16 O31 |
| Date: |
2017–06 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cer:papers:wp594&r=sog |