Gender bias in the Erasmus network of universities

The Erasmus Program (EuRopean community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students), the most important student exchange program in the world, financed by the European Union and started in 1987, is characterized by a strong gender bias. Female students participate to the program more than...

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Published in:Applied network science 2020-09, Vol.5 (1), p.64-64, Article 64
Main Authors: Benedictis, Luca De, Leoni, Silvia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
Colleges & universities
Complexity
Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Computer Science
Degree distribution
Erasmus
Gender
Gender bias
Global flow of commodity
Human bias
knowledge
money
Network Analysis
people
Simulation and Modeling
Students
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Summary:The Erasmus Program (EuRopean community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students), the most important student exchange program in the world, financed by the European Union and started in 1987, is characterized by a strong gender bias. Female students participate to the program more than male students. This work quantifies the gender bias in the Erasmus program between 2008 and 2013, using novel data at the university level. It describes the structure of the program in great detail, carrying out the analysis across fields of study, and identifies key universities as senders and receivers. In addition, it tests the difference in the degree distribution of the Erasmus network along time and between genders, giving evidence of a greater density in the female Erasmus network with respect to the one of the male Erasmus network.
ISSN:2364-8228
2364-8228
DOI:10.1007/s41109-020-00297-9