Chasing the academic dream: Biased beliefs and scientific labor markets☆
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We thank Sandro Ambuehl, Michal Bauer, Albert Bravo Biosca, Donna Ginther, Stepan Jurajda, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, Nikolas Mittag, Henry Sauermann, Paula Stephan, Hubert Wu, Basit Zafar and conference participants at the NBER Summer Institute, CERGE-EI, Max Planck Institute, the IGL Winter Research meeting, the Swiss Economists Abroad Association, CUNY Queens, and the University of Connecticut for helpful comments. We appreciate research assistance from Samantha Blaney. Gaulé and Vuletić Čugalj acknowledge financial support from the Czech Science Foundation (GACR grant no 16-05082S). Ganguli acknowledges support from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. This study has been approved by the University of Massachusetts Amherst IRB and was pre-registered in the AEA RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0003212). This paper uses confidential survey data collected by the authors, which they are unable to publicly share. The authors will provide an anonymized dataset and code to assist interested researchers with replication of the tables and figures in the paper.