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The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions

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dc.affiliation.institutoUC3M. Instituto para el Desarrollo de Empresas y Mercados (INDEM)es
dc.contributor.authorZinovyeva, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorBagues, Manuel F.
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto para el Desarrollo Empresarial (INDEM)
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-12T17:41:59Z
dc.date.available2012-09-12T17:41:59Z
dc.date.issued2012-09-07
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes the role of connections in academic promotions. We exploit evidence from centralized evaluations in Spain, where evaluators are randomly as- signed to promotion committees. We nd that prior connections between candidates and evaluators have a dramatic impact on candidates' success. For instance, the presence of a co-author or an advisor in the committee is equivalent to a standard deviation increase in candidates' research output. The e ect of a weaker link, such as a member of candidate's doctoral thesis committee, is one fourth as large. The source of the premium enjoyed by connected candidates depends on the nature of their relationship with committee members. In the case of weak links, informa- tional gains tend to dominate evaluation biases. Candidates promoted by a weak link turn out to be more productive in the future relative to other promoted candi- dates. However, consistently with the potential existence of favoritism, candidates promoted by a strong connection exhibit a signi cantly worse research record both before and after the evaluation.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.issn1989-8843
dc.identifier.repecid-12-02
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/15311
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000000802
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesINDEM Working Paper Business Economic
dc.relation.ispartofseries12-02
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEmpresa
dc.subject.jelJ44
dc.subject.jelM51
dc.subject.otherAcademic promotion
dc.subject.otherConnections
dc.subject.otherEvaluation bias
dc.subject.otherInformation asymmetries
dc.titleThe Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
dc.typeworking paper*
dc.type.hasVersionSMUR*
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