Thesis
Economics of academia: the two-body and dual-hire problem revisited
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
2017
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/104322
Abstract
The research objective of this thesis is to understand how different policies are related to female representation in academia, specifically examining female tenure-track faculty in economics and agricultural and applied economics. This essay employs data from 2017 economics and agricultural economics department and compares them to the presence of DualHire programs, including programs that assist with partner employment, NSF Advance grantee status, and on-site childcare in the recruitment and retention of female tenure-track faculty. This essay also addresses the revealed preferences question of faculty who decide or not to provide a curriculum vitae or commensurate information regarding their academic, professional and publication history. Finally, the analysis of agricultural economics controls for extension appointments for faculty members to account for the possibility of these faculty placing greater time and emphasis on bulletins and similar publications over journal articles, books and book chapters. This study is performed on a combined sample of economics and agricultural economics faculties, on the sample of economics departments and finally on the sample of agricultural economics faculty. The full sample results indicate NSF Advance programs improving the lot of female assistant professors but detracting from the prevalence of female associate professors. Dual career policies appear to benefit female associate professors and their male counterparts. Surprisingly, agricultural and applied economics departments appear to possess significantly higher proportions of female faculty at all levels but do not predict promotion to higher academic ranks. When only sampling economics departments, work-life programs do not appear effective in helping women climb the tenure ladder. Moreover, top 50 university credentials and top 50 university employment benefits male faculty members but not female. Childcare and NSF Advance programs increase the proportion of female assistant and full professors while Dual Hire programs increase numbers of female associate professors. Oncampus childcare appears to hinder the promotion of female agricultural economics faculty yet predicts increased percentages of female assistant faculty. Finally, NSF Advance programs correlate to higher percentages of female assistant and associate agricultural economics professors.
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Details
- Title
- Economics of academia
- Creators
- Tyler William LaFerriere
- Contributors
- Jill J. McCluskey (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Economic Sciences, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525383101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis