The Selection of Economics Lecturers into the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework Exercise: Outputs and Gender

Richard McManus, Karen Mumford () and Cristina Sechel ()

Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of York

Abstract: In the UK, Lecturers have future career paths that are the most sensitive to early recognition of research quality. Nevertheless, only 49% of the Lecturers in economics were submitted to the latest national Research Excellence Framework (REF2014): 40% of women and 53% of men. Using a rich new data source, and controlling for a range of observable characteristics expected to determine submission probability, we find more than 70% of the variance in selection propensity is left unexplained; implying considerable arbitrariness. A substantial conditional gender gap of 9.7% is also found. Given the potential inequalities associated with accumulative advantage for the individual, we fear that without a fully inclusive selection rule, Lecturers in economics should be left out of the UK REF process.

Keywords: research excellence framework; gender; selection; outputs; quality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11
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