Publications

Journal articles (peer-review)

You can find the replication files of my articles as well as preregistrations of my studies on OSF.

Heinze, T., Habicht, I. M., Eberhardt, P., & Tunger, D. (2025). Field size as a predictor of “excellence.” The selection of subject fields in Germany’s Excellence Initiative. PLOS ONE, 20(3), e0300828. DOI & Data.

Schröder, M., Habicht, I. M., & Lutter, M. (2025). Human capital, gender, institutional environment and research funding: Determinants of research productivity in German psychology. PLOS ONE, 20(2), e0317673. DOI & Data.

Schröder, M., Habicht, I. M., & Lutter, M. (2024). What leads to a professorship in German economics? A longitudinal analysis of tenure determinants (1984–2021). Studies in Higher Education, 1–18. DOI.

Habicht, I. M., Schröder, M., & Lutter, M. (2024). Female advantage in German sociology: Does accounting for the “leaky pipeline” effect in becoming a tenured university professor make a difference? In C. Gross & S. Jaksztat (Eds.), Career Paths Inside and Outside Academia (pp. 407–456). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. DOI & Data.

Habicht, Isabel M. (2023). Cross-country comparison: Does social democratic party power increase an employee’s perceived employability? Frontiers in Sociology, 8:1212553. DOI & Data.

Habicht, Isabel M. (2022). Do mothers get lost at the postdoc stage? Event history analysis of psychologists at German universities (1980–2019). Higher Education. DOI & Data.

Lutter, M., Habicht, I. M., & Schröder, M. (2022). Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019. Research Policy, 51(6), 104506. DOI.

Habicht, I. M., Lutter, M., & Schröder, M. (2021). How human capital, universities of excellence, third party funding, mobility and gender explain productivity in German political science. Scientometrics. DOI.

Schröder, M., Lutter, M., & Habicht, I. M. (2021). Publishing, signaling, social capital, and gender: Determinants of becoming a tenured professor in German political science. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0243514. DOI & Data.

Work in progress

Habicht, Isabel M.: Justice Principles in the Allocation of Parental Leave Within Couples. Preregistration.

Habicht, Isabel M.: How do policy regimes foster (wo)men’s work-family preferences as reflected in parental leave decisions? JFK Memorial Fellowship at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University in 2024/2025.

Habicht, Isabel M., Britta Gauly, Eva Zschirnt, Jessica Daikeler: Meta-analysis on gender and parenthood discrimination in hiring situations.

Habicht, Isabel M. & Daria Tisch: Disentangling the Causal Effect of Gender: Conceptualization and Methodological Approaches (Special Issue of KZfSS “Explanation and Causality in the Social Sciences”).

Thomas Heinze, Isabel M. Habicht, Paul Eberhardt, Dirk Tunger: Field size as a predictor of “excellence.” The selection of subject fields in Germany’s Excellence Initiative. Preprint.

Wunsch, Lisa, Isabel M. Habicht, Martin Schröder, Mark Lutter: Does Specialization Pay Off? Analyzing the Link Between Research Focus and Academic Career Success.

Data Sets

Habicht, I. M. (2024, October 4). Career tracks in German psychology, 1980–2019 (with Mark Lutter and Martin Schröder). Data.

Habicht, I. M. (2021). Career tracks in German political science, 1980–2019 (with Mark Lutter and Martin Schröder). Data.

Thesis

Habicht, Isabel M. (2022): Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a tenured professor, obtaining a habilitation, research productivity, and leaving academia in Germany from 1980 − 2019. Doctoral thesis.