Gender sorting among economists: Evidence from the NBER

Benjamin Davies

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 217, issue C

Abstract: I compare the co-authorship patterns of male and female economists, using historical data on National Bureau of Economic Research working papers. Men tended to work in smaller teams than women, but co-authored more papers and so had more co-authors overall. Both men and women had more same-gender co-authors than we would expect if co-authorships were random. This was especially true for men in Macro/Finance.

Keywords: Co-authorship; Gender; Homophily; NBER; Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 D85 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110640

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