Market forces in Italian academia today (and yesterday)

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ID21442287
AuthorsChiara Zanardello (0000-0003-3422-0266, UCLouvain, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume128
Issue1
Pages651-698
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScientometrics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0138-9130 • E-ISSN: 1588-2861
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11192-022-04579-0
OpenAlexW4309042737
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited63

This paper investigates the operation of the academic market in Italy, mapping current scholars’ location choices. I build a new dataset of current professors, associating each scholar with a composite indicator of their quality. The analysis includes the quality of the university and the features of the city where the institution is located. I estimate the strength of different factors: gravity (distance), agglomeration (scholars are attracted to higher quality universities), selection (better scholars travel longer distances), and sorting (the better the scholar, the more the quality of universities is weighted). I find that all of these factors have an effect, and do not vary according to scholars’ gender. I find a greater expected utility for scholars in choosing private universities over public ones, through a consistent nesting procedure. Comparing these forces to historical trends in Italian academia, the sorting effect delineates a new momentum for the current academic market in Italy

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Financial economics · Institution · Momentum (technical analysis) · Political science · Quality (philosophy) · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Sorting · Yesterday · Computer Science · Housing Market and Economics · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues · Marketing · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

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