Publications

Journal articles (peer-review)

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

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.

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.