The Survey Students Faculty Summary

First annual survey of Brazilian Economicsdepartments with an academic graduate program

Renata Narita

FEA/USP - Department of Economics

12 Dec 2018

SBE 2018, Rio de Janeiro

The Survey Students Faculty Summary

Committee: Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, Renata Narita, PaulaPereda, Fabiana Rocha

Research assistants: Bruna Borges, Richard Cunha, Victoria Klarosk

Website: www.usp.br/bwe

Contact: bwe@usp.br

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The survey

Respondents: institutions listed on CAPES quadrennial evaluation ofgraduate programs (Sub-area: Economics) - 52 departmentsQuestionnaire (available in our website): the number of men andwomen among students at the undergraduate and graduate levels; facultyacross all levels and contract types, and in administrative positions

Addressed to each institution, to the chair of the Department ofEconomics by e-mail and phone – from June to October, 2018.

Additional source: data from websites (university and CNPQLattes), used after verification by the institution.

Remarks:

We try to maintain the confidentiality of individual institutions’responses.

Precision of the responses depends on the cooperation ofdepartments in completing the questionnaire.

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Response rate

69.2%: 36 departments completed the questionnaire

Four contact attempts:

Note: After three unsuccesful attempts (by email and phone), data was collected fromthe department website and Lattes platform. Then, we sent these data to the head ofthe department for verification.

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Response rate by region and institution type

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# of Graduate Programs in Economics

Source: BWE Annual Survey (2018)

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Women among students who completed undergraduate in

Economics – 2017

Average: 35.6%

88.6% ofdepartmentsanswered thisitem.

Source: BWE Annual Survey (2018)

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Women among students who completed Masters inEconomics – 2017

Average: 36.0%

100% ofdepartmentsanswered thisitem.

Source: BWE Annual Survey (2018)

Notes: Non-responding and non-MA institutions are not distinguished in the map.

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Women among students who completed PhD in Economics- 2017

Average: 32.3%

100% ofdepartmentsanswered thisitem.

Source: BWE Annual Survey (2018)

Notes: Non-responding and non-PhD institutions are not distinguished in the map.

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Degrees awarded by year

Notes: 1 Inst.: (i) Undergraduate: the number of responding institutions with anundergraduate program in Economics; (ii) MA and PhD: the number of respondinginstitutions with a graduate program. 2 “Item response rate” denotes to ratio ofresponses to the especific item to the number of responding institutions.

Comparison: Brazilian Higher Education Census

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Degrees awarded by CAPES score - 2017

Note: Data from the BWE Annual Survey (2018). “Item response rate” denotes toratio of responses to the specific item to the number of responding institutions.

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Degrees awarded by institution type - 2017

Note: Data from the BWE Annual Survey (2018). “Item response rate” denotes toratio of responses to the specific item to the number of responding institutions.

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Distribution of Faculty - 2017

Note: “Permanent” are faculty members who hold voting rights in the department,e.g. can be part of committees, appointed as head or coordinator.

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Distribution of Faculty by Region - 2017

Note: “Permanent” are those faculty members who hold voting rights in thedepartment, e.g. can be part of committees, appointed as head or coordinator.”N.” isthe number of responding institutions.

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Distribution of Faculty by institution type - 2017

Note: “Permanent” are those faculty members who hold voting rights in thedepartment, e.g. can be part of committees, appointed as head or coordinator. “N.”is the number of responding institutions.

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Distribution of Faculty by CAPES score - 2017

Note: “Permanent” are those faculty members who hold voting rights in thedepartment, e.g. can be part of committees, appointed as head or coordinator. “N.”is the number of responding institutions.

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Share of women appointed as head or coordinator - 2017

Note: Percentage of women in permanent positions: 25.0%. The number ofobservations differ amongst categories, because some departments do not employ theentire set of positions listed.

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The Pipeline for Departments with a PhD program:International Comparison

% of Women among Students and Faculty Members

Sources: AEA/CSWEP Reports 2018, RES’s Report 2017, CWEN/RFE Report 2017and BWE Annual Survey 2018.

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Acknowledgments

All participant institutions

All participants and presenters at the BWE regular seminars at USP

Associate researcher: Cecılia Machado

3 excellent research assistants: Bruna Borges, Victoria Klarosk andRichard da Cunha

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Appendix: Undergraduate Programs – Brazilian HigherEducation Census (INEP/MEC)

Note: (*) Some departments have more than one course – e.g. IE/UNICAMP (2),FEAAC/UFC (2) and UFSM (2). Two departments, DER/UFV and MAER/UFC, donot have undergraduate programs in Economics. UFABC undergraduate program wasnot included as Economics in 2012, but is included as such in 2017.

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