In their article “An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence,” published in the American Economic Review in 2006, Shamena Anwar and Hanming Fang study racial prejudice in motor vehicle searches by Florida Highway Patrol officers (“troopers”)....

We address the issues raised by commentators on our paper in the symposium “Why few women in economics.†The commentators suggest that economics is gendered, a male subject reflecting basic differences in men’s and women’s life preferences and abilities. We find that,...

This paper comments on the lead symposium article, “Reaching the Top?–On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession,†by Christina Jonung and Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg. Using evidence from brain scans, mental ability tests, personality tests, and DNA, I show that the representation of...

Economics will always have few women so long as Max U rules the roost.

This paper comments on the lead symposium article, “Reaching the Top?–On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession,†by Christina Jonung and Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg. Jonung and Ståhlberg demonstrate that the economics profession recruits few women even in (or especially in)...

This paper contends that women tend to eschew the economics profession due to institutional barriers and that women tend to identify themselves with professions less obtuse than economics. Furthermore this paper suggests that social pressures foster perceptions that appropriate fields of thought...

Despite an increasing number of women entering the economics profession during recent decades, it is still dominated by men. This paper summarizes the situation in academic economics in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, the United States, and Sweden (substantial appendices, not previously...

This paper provides reflections on the lead symposium article, “Reaching the Top? - On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession,†by Christina Jonung and Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg.