Measuring nepotism through shared last names: The case of Italian academia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Allesina, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ITALIAN; LATITUDE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPOTISM; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; RELATIVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS; FAMILY; ITALY; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; FAMILY; HUMANS; ITALY; PERSONNEL SELECTION;

EID: 79961041282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021160     Document Type: Article

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