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Consequences of Affirmative Action: The Impact of Hiring a Female Professor
(2025)
Mähr, Maximilian
This paper studies how appointing a female professor through affirmative action affects hiring decisions and gender attitudes of faculty. For identification I use the introduction of a nationwide affirmative action policy in Germany that provides subsidies to departments appointing women to permanent full professorships. Using administrative data on all academic personnel employed at German public universities, I find that exposure to a female professor increases the share of female Ph.D. students but leaves hiring of women among full professors, assistant professors, and postdoctoral researchers unaffected. The rise in female Ph.D. enrollment is driven by individuals who completed their undergraduate studies in the same department. Additional findings show that after a woman joins the department, young male faculty members increase their collaboration with female colleagues. Further, I document that research productivity and direction are unaffected by the presence of an additional woman. Finally, I estimate that approximately two-thirds of subsidized female appointments would have occurred without the program.
Protégé-advisor gender pairings in academic survival and productivity of German PhD graduates
(2021)
Rehs, A.
Female underrepresentation is a severe problem in academia and challenges the principle of merit-based selection. Previous studies have found protégé-advisor gender pairings to be associated with scientific survival and early career productivity for young scientists. In this study, I add to these results and focus on the disentanglement of temporal patterns after completing a PhD. I link a dataset of German protégé-advisor pairs scraped from online dissertations with disambiguated publication data from the Web of Science. My analysis is based upon time-discrete survival regression and explores the duration until the final publication after completing a PhD. I show that for protégés of female advisors, the yearly risk to drop out of academia after completing a PhD is about 38% lower than for protégés of male advisors. This effect is not different between female and male protégés. Women generally have a higher yearly dropout rate after completing a PhD. © 2021 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2021. All rights reserved.

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