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  The Chance of Influence: A Natural Experiment on the Role of Social Capital in Academic Hiring

Godechot, O. (2014). The Chance of Influence: A Natural Experiment on the Role of Social Capital in Academic Hiring. MaxPo Discussion Paper, 14/1.

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Godechot, Olivier1, Autor           
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 Zusammenfassung: The effect of social capital is often overrated because contacts and centrality can be a consequence of success rather than its cause. Randomized or natural experiments are an excellent way to assess the real causal effect of social capital, but these are rare. This paper relies on data from one such experiment: recruitment at the EHESS, a leading social science institution in France, between 1960 and 2005. The EHESS recruitment process uses an electoral commission to produce a first-stage ranking of applicants, which is then provided to the faculty assembly for final voting. The commission is partly composed of faculty members drawn at random, a feature that this article exploits in order to compare the chances for success of applicants whose contacts have been drawn to sit on the commission (treated) versus those whose contacts have not been drawn (control). It shows that a contact such as a PhD advisor has a causal impact, especially for assistant professor hiring exams: it doubles the chance of being ranked and increases the share of votes by 10 percent. This phenomenon may explain part of the classic “academic inbreeding” issue.

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Sprache(n): eng - English
 Datum: 2014-012014
 Publikationsstatus: Erschienen
 Seiten: IV, 32
 Ort, Verlag, Ausgabe: Paris : MaxPo
 Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1 Natural experiments on social capital
2 The role of mentorship in academic careers
3 Recruitment at EHESS: Electoral procedure, methods, and data
A form of recruitment both specific and general
The random dimension of the electoral commission
The model
Links studied
Checking the experiment’s validity
4 Results
The advisor effect on the electoral commission
The advisor effect at various stages
Effects of other contacts
5 Concluding comments
Possible underlying mechanisms
A public policy issue
On the respective efficiency of strong and weak ties
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Titel: MaxPo Discussion Paper
Genre der Quelle: Reihe
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Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo), MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society, Herausgeber              
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Seiten: - Band / Heft: 14/1 Artikelnummer: - Start- / Endseite: - Identifikator: ISSN: 2196-6508
ISSN: 2197-3075