Economics Coauthorships in the Aftermath of MeToo

Noriko Amano-Patino, Elisa Faraglia and Chryssi Giannitsarou

No 18969, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: We study changes in coauthorships in economics, after the MeToo movement, using NBER and CEPR working papers between January 2004 and December 2020. We identify three main shifts in collaboration patterns. First, compared to pre-MeToo levels, collaborations across genders in an author's seniority group increased: we estimate a 12.3% increase of women coauthors per 100 men-authored papers. Second, coauthorship shares of senior with junior economics declined by 3.0%, indicating a shift towards sorting of collaborations by seniority. Third, shares of new coauthorships declined by 5.4%, driven by drops in senior economists’ shares of new junior and new junior women by 18.4% and 48.0%, respectively. The results are robust to different specifications.

Keywords: MeToo; Gender; Networks; Coauthorships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J24 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04
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