Dear colleagues, The Department of Economics cordially invites you to the Wu Research Seminar in Economics on Wednesday, May 13th, with Natalia Zinovyeva (https://profiles.warwick.ac.uk/u1971720-natalia-zinovyeva) presenting: "Women in Top Academic Positions: Is There a Trickle-down Effect?". Abstract: We study how the promotion of female faculty affects future hiring and PhD cohorts, using data from 4,000 Spanish university departments across all disciplines. We identify exogenous variation in promotions by exploiting the random assignment of evaluators to promotion committees from 2002 to 2008, where applicants randomly assigned to committees that included co-authors or former colleagues were significantly more likely to succeed. We find that a female promotion to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years and leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, while also raising the likelihood that female PhD graduates remain in academia and reach tenured positions. Promoting researchers, of any gender, in female-dominated fields generates similar but smaller effects, suggesting that while research alignment matters, gender itself plays an independent role. These results suggest that advancing women at key career stages can generate lasting, cumulative gains far downstream, both in faculty composition and PhD training. * Date: Wednesday, May 13th * Time: 4.30 to 6 pm (CET) * Location: building D4, entrance A, ground floor, D4.0.144<https://campus.wu.ac.at/?q=D4.0.144> With best regards, Harald Oberhofer --- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Oberhofer Department of Economics WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Phone: +43/1/31336-4984 Email: harald.oberhofer@wu.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wu.ac.at> https://www.wu.ac.at/en/economics/people/oberhofer-h Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Phone: +43/1/7982601-468 Email: harald.oberhofer@wifo.ac.at<mailto:harald.oberhofer@wifo.ac.at> http://www.wifo.ac.at/harald_oberhofer