Women in economics: the role of gendered references at entry in the profession

Audinga Baltrunaite, Alessandra Casarico and Lucia Rizzica ()
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Lucia Rizzica: Bank of Italy

No 1438, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: We study the presence and the extent of gender differences in reference letters for graduate students in economics and finance, and how these differences relate to early labor market outcomes. To these ends, we build a novel rich dataset and combine Natural Language Processing techniques with standard regression analysis. We find that men are described more often as brilliant and women as hardworking and diligent. We show that the former (latter) description relates positively (negatively) with various subsequent career outcomes. We provide evidence that the observed differences in the way candidates are described are driven by implicit gender stereotypes.

Keywords: gender bias; research institutions; professional labor markets; word embeddings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J16 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-big, nep-gen, nep-hpe, nep-lab and nep-sog
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Working Paper: Women in economics: the role of gendered references at entry in the profession (2022)
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