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Gender And Graduate Economics Education In The Us

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David Colander ()
Jessica Holmes ()

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This paper reports on the ?ndings of a survey of top economics graduate schools as they relate to women and men. The results provide strong evidence that at these top graduate schools, women graduate students are less integrated in their economic disciplines than are male graduate students. In the second part of the paper, this paper relates those ?ndings to alternative theories as to why this is the case. This paper concludes by suggesting that the emphasis on theoretical studies in the current core of the graduate economics program can be seen as a type of hazing process that seems to have a signi?cant cost since many women (and men) with great creative promise are discouraged from continuing in economics and do not bene?t nearly as much as they would have from more policy-driven core courses.

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Paper provided by Middlebury College, Department of Economics in its series Middlebury College Working Paper Series with number 0725.

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Date of creation: 2007
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  1. Kahn, Shulamit, 1993. "Gender Differences in Academic Career Paths of Economists," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(2), pages 52-56, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Uri Gneezy & Aldo Rustichini, 2004. "Gender and Competition at a Young Age," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(2), pages 377-381, May. [Downloadable!]
  3. David Colander, 2005. "The Making of An Economist Redux," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 0531, Middlebury College, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  4. David Neumark & Rosella Gardecki, 1996. "Women Helping Women? Role-Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Student in Economics," NBER Working Papers 5733, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Colander, David & Klamer, Arjo, 1987. "The Making of an Economist," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 1(2), pages 95-111, Fall. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. Uri Gneezy & Muriel Niederle & Aldo Rustichini, 2003. "Performance In Competitive Environments: Gender Differences," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 118(3), pages 1049-1074, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. McDowell, John M & Smith, Janet Kiholm, 1992. "The Effect of Gender-Sorting on Propensity to Coauthor: Implications for Academic Promotion," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 30(1), pages 68-82, January.
  8. Donna K. Ginther & Shulamit Kahn, 2004. "Women in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 18(3), pages 193-214, Summer. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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