Chasing the academic dream: biased beliefs and scientific labor markets

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Chasing the academic dream: biased beliefs and scientific labor markets

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Chasing the academic dream: biased beliefs and scientific labor markets

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-05082S" target="_blank" >GA16-05082S: Nabídková strana vědy: průzkum vstupu do vědeckých kariér</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

ISSN

0167-2681

e-ISSN

1879-1751

Svazek periodika

202

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

October

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

17-33

Kód UT WoS článku

000848079600002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85135851376