Using a rich new data source, we explore the selection of economics lecturers into the last UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Only some one-in-two (54%) of these lecturers were submitted to REF2014; 57% of men and 46% of women. The decision making of institutions is found to be well approximated by a simplified selection approach; focusing on working papers and higher quality journal publications. Our results also reveal sizeable conditional differences in the probability of selection, especially so in departments with higher research rankings. More than half of the variance in selection probability remains unexplained, revealing considerable idiosyncrasies in the management of submissions and uncertainty across the discipline in this research assessment process.

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衡量英国经济学讲师的研究卓越性

使用丰富的新数据源，我们探索经济学讲师的选择进入上一次英国卓越研究框架 (REF) 练习。这些讲师中只有二分之一 (54%) 提交给 REF2014；57% 的男性和 46% 的女性。通过简化的选择方法可以很好地近似机构的决策；专注于工作论文和更高质量的期刊出版物。我们的结果还揭示了选择概率的相当大的条件差异，尤其是在研究排名较高的部门中。超过一半的选择概率差异仍未得到解释，这揭示了该研究评估过程中提交的管理和跨学科的不确定性的相当大的特质。