UK academic research in economics and in many other subjects. But is it possible to design an objective check on, and …-leading research, and that UK economics did show a small improvement. …

Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals … Economics degree than non-enrollees (a plausible lower bound given negative selection into enrollment on math skills and major … participation in Economics …

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 …

questions than men. Men are less likely to attend presentations on health, education, welfare, and development economics than … sessions at a large economics conference, using the annual meeting of the German Economics Association in 2012 as a case study … 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 …

data ; economics profession …

for economics and business research are critically evaluated. Their lists suggest that the quality of top business … journals is substantially lower than that of many economics journals. If, however, the authors of these lists do not want to … claim a general superiority of one discipline (economics) over another one (business), they should give a clear indication …