We document wide and persistent variation in women's representation and success across graduate programs in economics … step in learning about “what works” in expanding women's representation in economics.Institutional subscribers to the NBER …

, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics …

Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research … universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge … uncomplicated and inexpensive interventions can substantially increase the interest of women to major in economics …

Although women are underrepresented in the field of economics, many see little need for intervention, arguing that … women are inherently less interested in economics, or are less willing or able to get the math skills skills needed to do … economics majors using a survey of students in the introductory economics course at Harvard University as well as data on an …

One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring …. The evidence is based on survey information on female graduate students and faculties of Ph.D.-producing economics …

There is widespread concern that economics does not attract as broad or diverse a pool of talent as it could. For … example, less than one-third of undergraduates who receive degrees in economics are women, significantly lower than in math or …-world problems. We conclude by discussing how these ideas for improving instruction in economics could be applied in other courses …