In this episode, we discuss whether prestige matters in academia and how it shapes academic hierarchy. This topic is based on a paper published recently in Nature entitled “Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention” authored by Daniel Larremorem et al, which presented an analysis based on a large dataset from US faculty census collected in the past 10 years. Reference list:

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05222-x
• https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/02/university-hiring-if-you-di ...