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SUMMARY:Research Seminar in Economics: Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University)
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background 
 Shapes Academia\n\nSpeaker: Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University) with Ran 
 Abramitzky (Stanford University), Lena Greska (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universi
 tät Munich), Santiago Peréz (University of California, Davis), Joseph Pr
 ice (Brigham Young University) and Fabian Waldinger (IZA Institute of Labo
 r Economics)\n\nTime & venue:\n\nThursday, 12.15–1.30 p.m.\n\nFU Berlin,
  Boltzmannstr. 16-20\n\nroom 202/ Kaminzimmer\n\nDescription: \n\nThis pa
 per explores the impact of socio-economic background on academic careers i
 n the United States. We construct a novel dataset that links the near-univ
 erse of US academics to full-count censuses, allowing for a comprehensive 
 analysis of the relationship between parental occupation, socio-economic s
 tatus, and academic outcomes. We document a severe underrepresentation of 
 children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds among academics. We also doc
 ument significant variations in socio-economic selectivity by academic dis
 cipline and university. Conditional on making it to academia, there are no
  differences in careers and scientific productivity, indicating that the i
 nitial selection process may play a crucial role in determining one‘s ac
 ademic success. Additionally, we show that socioeconomic background influe
 nces a scientist‘s choice of subfield and, thereby, the direction of res
 earch.
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