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Do Men and Women-Economists Choose the Same Research Fields? Evidence from Top-50 Departments

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Juan J. Dolado () (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, CEPR and IZA Bonn)
Florentino Felgueroso () (Universidad de Oviedo and CEPR)
Miguel Almunia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some behavioral implications from theories underlying such disparities. Our main findings are that the probability that a woman chooses a given field is positively related to the share of women in that field (path-dependence), and that the share of women in a field at a given department increases with the sizes of the department and field, while it decreases with their average quality. However, these patterns seem to be changing for younger female faculty members. Further, by using Ph.D. cohorts, we document how gender segregation across fields has evolved over the last four decades.

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Keywords: men and women-economists; research fields; gender segregation; path-dependence; tobit and probit models;

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A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J70 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - General

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