Climbing Career Steps: Becoming a Full Professor of Economics
使用事件史分析研究瑞典经济学博士成为正教授的过程，发现博士答辩年龄越小、研究主题越热门、担任答辩评委次数越多，晋升风险越高。
Event history analysis is used to examine the process of becoming a full professor of economics in Sweden. The data encompass 256 Swedish doctors' dissertations in economics between 1951 and 1989. A piecewise constant exponential model is specified for the transition risk of becoming a full professor. The risk decreases with age at the defense of a doctoral thesis and increases with the current popularity of the chosen topic and with the number of times appointed faculty opponent. There is no indication of individual‐specific unobserved heterogeneity in the preferred model.