economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for … promotion in other fields including biomedical science, physical science, political science, mathematics and statistics, and …

that women in science will advance up the academic job ladder beyond their early post-doctorate years, while both marriage …Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender … facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that women are less likely to take tenure track positions …

This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We …

We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles … market inferred their work was mediocre all along. We then investigate whether the eminence of the retracted author and the …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …

positive effect on women's career investment by almost eliminating the chance of becoming pregnant and thus the cost of having …The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … suggest that as women's work-life experiences become more congruent with men's over time, the gap in retirement income between … different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why …

Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their …, namely, that CeMENT expanded the collaboration networks of the participants. Our analysis finds that women who received the …-tier publications. These results suggest that the information conveyed at the workshop facilitated participants' career success …

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … cohorts.' Each cohort made choices concerning career and family subject to different constraints. The first cohort, graduating … college from the beginning of the twentieth century to the close of World War I, had either family or career.' The second …