The chance of influence: A natural experiment on the role of social capital infaculty recruitment - Sciences Po Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Social Networks Année : 2016

The chance of influence: A natural experiment on the role of social capital infaculty recruitment

Résumé

The effect of social capital is often overestimated because contacts and centrality can be a consequence of success rather than its cause. Only rare randomized or natural experiments can assess the real causal effect of social capital. This paper relies on data from one such experiment: faculty recruitment at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) between 1960 and 2005, a leading French institution of higher education in the social sciences. It exploits the fact that the electoral commission, a hiring committee which produces a first ranking of applicants, is partly composed of faculty members drawn at random. It shows that when the PhD advisor is randomly drawn, it doubles the chances of an applicant of being shortlisted.

Domaines

Sociologie
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
2016-godechot-the-chance-of-influence.pdf (365.06 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte

Dates et versions

hal-03459366 , version 1 (01-12-2021)

Identifiants

Citer

Olivier Godechot. The chance of influence: A natural experiment on the role of social capital infaculty recruitment. Social Networks, 2016, 46, pp.60 - 75. ⟨10.1016/j.socnet.2016.02.002⟩. ⟨hal-03459366⟩
25 Consultations
55 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More