Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170812 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10828
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our analysis is based on an original dataset covering nearly 20,000 PhD graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry departments. We find that students with an advisor of the same gender tend to be more productive during the PhD and more likely to become professors themselves. We suggest that the under-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same-gender advisors for female students.
Subjects: 
postgraduate careers
PhD
gender
science
JEL: 
J24
J16
I23
O31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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