The Dynamics of Faculty Hiring Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02949v1
• Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 21:02:20 GMT
• Title: The Dynamics of Faculty Hiring Networks
• Authors: Eun Lee, Aaron Clauset, Daniel B. Larremore
• Abstract summary: We study a family of adaptive rewiring network models, which reinforce institutional prestige in five ways. We find that structural inequalities and centrality patterns in real hiring networks are best reproduced by a mechanism of global placement power. On the other hand, network measures of biased visibility are better recapitulated by a mechanism of local placement power.
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• Abstract: Faculty hiring networks-who hires whose graduates as faculty-exhibit steep hierarchies, which can reinforce both social and epistemic inequalities in academia. Understanding the mechanisms driving these patterns would inform efforts to diversify the academy and shed new light on the role of hiring in shaping which scientific discoveries are made. Here, we investigate the degree to which structural mechanisms can explain hierarchy and other network characteristics observed in empirical faculty hiring networks. We study a family of adaptive rewiring network models, which reinforce institutional prestige within the hierarchy in five distinct ways. Each mechanism determines the probability that a new hire comes from a particular institution according to that institution's prestige score, which is inferred from the hiring network's existing structure. We find that structural inequalities and centrality patterns in real hiring networks are best reproduced by a mechanism of global placement power, in which a new hire is drawn from a particular institution in proportion to the number of previously drawn hires anywhere. On the other hand, network measures of biased visibility are better recapitulated by a mechanism of local placement power, in which a new hire is drawn from a particular institution in proportion to the number of its previous hires already present at the hiring institution. These contrasting results suggest that the underlying structural mechanism reinforcing hierarchies in faculty hiring networks is a mixture of global and local preference for institutional prestige. Under these dynamics, we show that each institution's position in the hierarchy is remarkably stable, due to a dynamic competition that overwhelmingly favors more prestigious institutions.

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