Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Rossello, Giulia
Author-Email: rossello@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Author-Name: Cowan, Robin
Author-Email: cowan@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, BETA, Universite
	 de Strasbourg, IUF Descartes, and CREST, Stellenbosch University.
Author-Name: Mairesse, Jacques
Author-Email: mairesse@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, CREST-ENSAE, and NBER
Title: Ph.D. research output in STEM: the role of gender and race in supervision
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 
	 career productivity differences: while female students publish on 
	 average 10% to 20% fewer articles than males, this is true mainly for 
	 female students working with a male advisor, not for those working with 
	 a female one. These disparities are similar, though more pronounced, 
	 when looking at the joint effects of gender and race for the white-white 
	 and black-black student-advisor pairs. We also explore whether 
	 publication productivity differences change significantly for students 
	 with a high, medium, or low 'productivity-profile', and find that they 
	 are U-shaped. Female students with a high (or low) 
	 'productivity-profile' studying with female advisors are as productive 
	 than male students with a high (or low) 'productivity-profile' studying 
	 with male advisors.
Classification-JEL: A14, I23, I24, J15, J16, J24, O32
Keywords: Gender and race, Student Advisor, South Africa, Doctoral research,
	 research productivity, Role models
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20200515
Number: 2020-021
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2020/wp2020-021.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2020021