Inside Policy Talks
Eric Kaufmann: How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada's research chairs
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Critics of DEI have long warned that demographic-based hiring requirements can come at the expense of merit and academic excellence.
In a recent MLI paper, The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program, senior fellow Eric Kaufmann, alongside coauthors Leif Rasmussen and Jonah Davids, examines the publication records, citation measures, and other…