Examining the relationship between academic performance and workplace position: does the glass ceiling exist among graduates from the same university?

Laura Beaudin

Applied Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 26, issue 4, 286-289

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between academic performance and workplace position. Academic performance is measured by undergraduate grade point average (GPA). A series of ordered probit regression models are estimated to isolate the impact of undergraduate GPA on the probability that female and male graduates from the same university hold middle or upper management jobs within their companies. After all potential heterogeneity and explanatory variables are controlled for, results of the pooled regression models suggest that women are less likely to hold both middle and upper management positions. Further analysis also suggests that lower GPA significantly decreases the probability that women hold these positions, while GPA seems to have no significant impact on workplace position for men. Moreover, most factors which positively impact the probability that women attain these positions also benefit men more at the highest level.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1467546

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