United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National … Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially narrowed in Europe. Underrepresented minorities are less likely to …

economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …

publications in the top journals in three fields - Psychology, Mathematics and Economics - and develop a series of models to …

Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment …

The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …

Economics and history both strive to understand causation: economics using instrumental variables econometrics and …

a multi-purpose publication with highly disparate content. Over time the economics profession expanded and more … economics research was produced, primarily in the form of journal articles. The AER accommodated this shift by allocating more …

In the United States today the academic field of economic history is much closer to economics than it is to history in … terms of professional behavior, a stylized fact that I call the "integration of economic history into economics". I document … history and economics; and publication histories of successive cohorts of PhDs in the first decade since receiving the …

-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …