Field Specializations among Beginning Economists: Are There Gender Differences?

Eva Sierminska and Ronald Oaxaca

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, vol. 111, 86-91

Abstract: We examine the process underlying field specialization among beginning economists. Our multivariate logit framework accommodates single- and dual-field specializations with correlated choices. Including field-specific relative salaries and expected probabilities of academic employment is a novel aspect of this research. After conditioning on personal, economic, and institutional variables, we find that women graduate students are less likely to specialize in labor/health, macro/finance, industrial organization, public economics, and development/growth/international fields and are more likely to specialize in agricultural/resource/environmental fields. The Duncan dissimilarity index suggests that 14 percent of either sex would have to change specialization in order to achieve complete parity.

JEL-codes: A14 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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