Testing the Presence of Implicit Hiring Quotas with Application to German Universities

Lena Janys
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Lena Janys: University of Bonn (Department of Economics), Hausdorff Center of Mathematics and IZA

No 165, ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series from University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany

Abstract: Women are underrepresented in academia in general and economics in particular. I introduce a test to detect an under-researched form of hiring bias: implicit quotas. I derive a test under the null hypothesis of gender-blind hiring that requires no additional information about individual hires and can be used to analyze hiring bias in a variety of other hiring settings. I derive its asymptotic distribution and propose a parametric bootstrap procedure that resamples from the exact distribution. I analyze the distribution of female professors at German universities and find an implicit quota of one or two women on the department level.

Keywords: Gender; Academia; Bernoulli Sequences; Hypothesis Testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C18 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2022-05
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