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Using Longitudinal Data to Explore the Gender Gap for Academic Economists

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  • Kelly Bedard
  • Maxine Lee
  • Heather Royer

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There are widespread gender inequities within the economics discipline. In this paper, we collect and analyze new longitudinal salary and personnel data from top economics departments at public institutions. A panel spanning 2005 to 2018 allows us to follow individuals and facilitates the examination of gender gaps in career progression, salary growth, and mobility. Using these data, we document the growth of salary gender gaps with the length of time in the profession, emerging roughly 10 years after the start of one's career. Some of these gaps are attributable to women moving through academic ranks more slowly than men.

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  • Kelly Bedard & Maxine Lee & Heather Royer, 2021. "Using Longitudinal Data to Explore the Gender Gap for Academic Economists," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 111, pages 69-73, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:111:y:2021:p:69-73
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20211087
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    Cited by:

    1. Bachan, Ray & Bryson, Alex, 2022. "The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    2. Minehan, Shannon N. & Wesselbaum, Dennis, 2024. "Gender, personality, and performance," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    3. Lucia Foster & Erika McEntarfer & Danielle H. Sandler, 2022. "Diversity and Labor Market Outcomes in the Economics Profession," Working Papers 22-26, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

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    JEL classification:

    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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