Understanding the Drivers of the Gender Productivity Gap in the Economics Profession

Dennis Wesselbaum

The American Economist, 2023, vol. 68, issue 1, 61-73

Abstract: In this paper, I construct a novel data set from individual curriculum vitae of economists at the top 100 US departments to study gender differences in the drivers of scholarly performance. Using a Shapley decomposition procedure to estimate the contribution of each driver in explaining the variation in mean and inequality of research performance, I find that for women, current placement is a more important driver of performance and inequality in performance compared to men. For men, co-authorship is the most important driver. Overall, my results suggest that networks are the key driver of performance and of inequality in performance. JEL codes: A14, J16, J24

Keywords: drivers, gender, inequality; networks; placement; scholarly performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/05694345221128193

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