Chasing the academic dream: biased beliefs and scientific labor markets
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11640%2F22%3A00560157" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11640/22:00560157 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.021" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.021</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.021" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.021</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Chasing the academic dream: biased beliefs and scientific labor markets
Original language description
We investigate whether biased beliefs play a role in the persistent demand for postdoctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students at 56 U.S. chemistry departments through a survey combined with a field experiment, in which we randomize the provision of information to a subset of respondents on historical academic placements by department. We first show that respondents have excessively optimistic beliefs about their own and their peers’ chances of obtaining a tenure track faculty position. Respondents who received the historical placement information treatment updated their beliefs about their own likelihood of obtaining a faculty position in a follow-up survey one year later, particularly those who had the most biased initial beliefs. However, we do not find an effect on the likelihood of doing a post-doc at four years post-intervention.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-05082S" target="_blank" >GA16-05082S: The supply side of science: investigating entry into scientific careers</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
ISSN
0167-2681
e-ISSN
1879-1751
Volume of the periodical
202
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
17-33
UT code for WoS article
000848079600002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85135851376