Identifying emerging scholars: seeing through the crystal ball of scholarship selection committees

Vincent Chandler ()
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Scientometrics, 2019, vol. 120, issue 1, No 3, 39-56

Abstract: Abstract To better understand the added-value of the academic evaluation process, this paper studies the relationship between scores given by 105 evaluators to 1900 doctoral candidates who received a scholarship and their outcomes 10 years after the competition. I first find that a one point increase in total score is associated with a 1.4 percentage point (2.1% of a s.e.) increase in the probability of completing a Ph.D. in 5 years, with a 1.0 percentage point (2.1% of a s.e.) increase in the probability of completing a Ph.D. in 10 years, and with a 1.4 percentage point increase (3% of a s.e.) in the probability of becoming a tenure-track professor 10 years after the competition. I then use the individual evaluator-candidate scores to provide evidence that male evaluators give higher scores than do female evaluators to students who complete their doctoral program in 5 years. Since there is no difference between scores given by male and female evaluators to candidates who become tenure-track professors, male evaluators seem more focused on shorter time to degree than are female evaluators.

Keywords: Gender; Prediction; Communication; Selection; Graduate scholarships; Selection; Higher education; Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I23 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03120-0

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