Ph.d. research output in stem: The role of gender and race in supervision

Giulia Rossello; Robin Cowan; Jacques Mairesse

Ph.d. research output in stem: The role of gender and race in supervision

Giulia Rossello
, Robin Cowan
, Jacques Mairesse

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Abstract

We study whether student-advisor gender and race couples matter for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider the sample of all Ph.D.s in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We investigate the joint effects of gender and race for the whole sample and looking separately at the sub-samples of (1) whitewhite; (2) black-black; and (3) black-white student-advisor couples. We find early

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Maastricht
Publisher	UNU-MERIT
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2020

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Series	UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Number	021
ISSN	1871-9872

JEL classifications

a14 - Sociology of Economics
i23 - Higher Education and Research Institutions
i24 - Education and Inequality
j15 - "Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination"
j16 - "Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination"
j24 - "Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity"
o32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

Keywords

Gender and race
Student Advisor
South Africa
Doctoral research
research productivity
Role models

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