In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …

names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite … stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …

order to find gender differences in their research approach. We implement an unsupervised machine learning algorithm: the … structural topic model (STM), so as to incorporate gender document-level meta-data into a probabilistic text model. This …

sizable gender effects. Women attend research sessions more diligently than men (at any point in time only half of the …

This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the … United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National … definitive conclusions in the face of contradictory evidence on the gender funding gap. We conclude that access to high …