Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232908 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14156
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a rich new data source, we explore the selection of economics Lecturers into the last UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Only some one-in-two (54%) of these Lecturers were submitted to REF2014; 57% of men and 46% of women. The decision making of Institutions is found to be well approximated by a simplified selection approach; focusing on working papers and higher quality journal publications. Our results also reveal sizeable conditional differences in the probability of selection, especially so in departments with higher research rankings. More than half of the variance in selection probability remains unexplained, revealing considerable idiosyncrasies in the management of submissions and uncertainty across the discipline in this research assessment process.
Subjects: 
REF
gender
selection
outputs
quality
inclusivity
JEL: 
J00
J44
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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