Isabel M Habicht
Biographic Data
| ID | 2091538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabel M Habicht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabel M |
| FAMILY NAME | Habicht |
| SIGNATURE | HABICHT I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wuppertal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5346-6662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Why women leave academia
The metaphor of a “leaky pipeline” is often used to describe the disproportionate loss of women at successive stages throughout academic careers, yet systematic longitudinal evidence on actual academic attrition remains limited. This study fills this gap by employing an original longitudinal panel design tracking nearly the entire population of sociologists in Germany from 1980 to 2022. Applying Cox regression models to career histories, the anal…
Rethinking Gender and Other Seemingly Nonmanipulable Characteristics for Causal Analysis
Identifying the causes of social inequality is crucial for designing effective policy interventions. Experimental methods, in which variables are manipulated and participants are randomly assigned to conditions, are widely regarded as the gold standard for causal inference. However, it seems impossible to randomly assign social categories such as gender or race. Does that mean that, for example, gender cannot cause outcomes? We propose a conceptu…
What leads to a professorship in German economics? A longitudinal analysis of tenure determinants (1984-2021)
This study uses event history analysis to show what promotes tenure in German economics, utilizing a unique and virtually complete national dataset that includes 70,657 publications from 3955 economists, of which 1196 received tenure between 1984 and 2021. While existing theories emphasize that gender discrimination, parenthood, human capital, academic prestige, and social capital explain who is tenured, no study has thus far evaluated these fact…
Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019)
Women in academia are typically outnumbered by men, a phenomenon metaphorically known as “the leaky pipeline.” This study contributes by showing a motherhood penalty in the career pipeline at the postdoctoral stage in Germany—that is, during habilitation. Based on CV information and an email survey, the paper examines which factors are associated with being awarded a habilitation and whether these factors differ between women and men as well as m…
Cross-country comparison
Individuals strive to be highly employable, yet, we lack a uniform definition of 'employability'. Within the labour market, employability can be seen as a product of individual human capital resources. However, this study argues that employability is also affected by the structure of the labour market and therefore also considers a country's economic situation and political power to quantify employees' perceived employability. Using data from the…
How human capital, universities of excellence, third party funding, mobility and gender explain productivity in German political science
Using a unique panel dataset of virtually all German academic political scientists, we show that researchers become much more productive due to the accumulation of human capital and third party funding. We also show however, that while universities of excellence have more productive researchers, individuals who go there do not become more productive. Finally, we show how women publish only 9 percent less than men with the same level of prior publ…
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How human capital, universities of excellence, third party funding, mobility and gender explain productivity in German political science
Using a unique panel dataset of virtually all German academic political scientists, we show that researchers become much more productive due to the accumulation of human capital and third party funding. We also show however, that while universities of excellence have more productive researchers, individuals who go there do not become more productive. Finally, we show how women publish only 9 percent less than men with the same level of prior publ…
Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019)
Women in academia are typically outnumbered by men, a phenomenon metaphorically known as “the leaky pipeline.” This study contributes by showing a motherhood penalty in the career pipeline at the postdoctoral stage in Germany—that is, during habilitation. Based on CV information and an email survey, the paper examines which factors are associated with being awarded a habilitation and whether these factors differ between women and men as well as m…
Cross-country comparison
Individuals strive to be highly employable, yet, we lack a uniform definition of 'employability'. Within the labour market, employability can be seen as a product of individual human capital resources. However, this study argues that employability is also affected by the structure of the labour market and therefore also considers a country's economic situation and political power to quantify employees' perceived employability. Using data from the…
What leads to a professorship in German economics? A longitudinal analysis of tenure determinants (1984-2021)
This study uses event history analysis to show what promotes tenure in German economics, utilizing a unique and virtually complete national dataset that includes 70,657 publications from 3955 economists, of which 1196 received tenure between 1984 and 2021. While existing theories emphasize that gender discrimination, parenthood, human capital, academic prestige, and social capital explain who is tenured, no study has thus far evaluated these fact…
Why women leave academia
The metaphor of a “leaky pipeline” is often used to describe the disproportionate loss of women at successive stages throughout academic careers, yet systematic longitudinal evidence on actual academic attrition remains limited. This study fills this gap by employing an original longitudinal panel design tracking nearly the entire population of sociologists in Germany from 1980 to 2022. Applying Cox regression models to career histories, the anal…
Rethinking Gender and Other Seemingly Nonmanipulable Characteristics for Causal Analysis
Identifying the causes of social inequality is crucial for designing effective policy interventions. Experimental methods, in which variables are manipulated and participants are randomly assigned to conditions, are widely regarded as the gold standard for causal inference. However, it seems impossible to randomly assign social categories such as gender or race. Does that mean that, for example, gender cannot cause outcomes? We propose a conceptu…
German (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Human capital (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works)