id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-272026-2zb7btjd Benedictis, Luca De Gender bias in the Erasmus network of universities 2020-09-15 .txt text/plain 8006 328 50 Considering the directed and unweighted Erasmus network of universities, the analysis explores the possible changes in the indegree and outdegree distributions along time and between gender and tests a power law fitted model to the data. The paper is organized as follows: the first section provides a description of the data used in the analysis; the second section quantifies the Erasmus program general trend and gender imbalance in student flows across fields of study. The fourth section compares the network indegree and outdegree distributions over time and between genders, it highlights the change in the distributional model occurred over the years considered and tests for the best model to fit the empirical distribution; finally, the conclusive section summarizes the results of the analysis, draws some final observations regarding the possible future evolution of the gender bias in the Erasmus program and provides some suggestions for future research. ./cache/cord-272026-2zb7btjd.txt ./txt/cord-272026-2zb7btjd.txt