Koffi, Marlène; Marx, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze more than 70 million scientific articles to characterize the gender dynamics of commercializing science. The … double-digit gender gap we report is explained neither by the quality of the science nor its ex-ante commercial potential … generally boast less, but even when they do their discoveries are commercialized no more often. We also observe gender homophily …