【题目】Segregation in Academia: Evidence from Collaboration Networks in China

【时间】2023年12月21日（周四）14：00

【地点】经管学院文二栋301会议室

【主讲人】邓兰芳博士

【主持人】刘愿教授

【摘要】Using the micro-big data of traditional non-tenure-track researchers (called “iron rice bowl” or bianzhi) from 1980-2021 in China, we examine whether the school-level tenure track shock has a direct spillover over effect on non-tenure-track scholars and propagate in their knowledge production networks. We find the implementation of the tenure track at the school level significantly reduces their publication quantity and quality, especially for coauthored publications in English. More importantly, those non-tenure-track researchers who experienced such policy impose substantial knowledge production loss, both from the quantity and quality aspects, on their non-tenure-track coauthors. The negative propagation effect in the network is much more pronounced on the cooperative knowledge productions than on the sole ones. Heterogenous effects suggest that the propagation effect is primarily driven by the school level’s tenure-track policy of these non-tenure-track coauthors who have the same research field, work in the same city, and are of the same gender. Overall, our results shed some light on the propagation of tenure-track shock and its greater impact in the knowledge production network.

【主讲人简介】邓兰芳，应用经济学博士，国色天香1区二区三区四区经济与管理学院讲师，毕业于湖南大学经济与管理研究中心。研究方向为劳动经济学。