IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/apandp/v114y2024p528-34.html

Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

Author

Listed:
  • Francisca M. Antman
  • Kirk B. Doran
  • Xuechao Qian
  • Bruce A. Weinberg

Abstract

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM) researchers are more likely to write dissertations in some unexpected subfields of economics but limited evidence that they are more likely to write dissertations on racial topics once we include basic controls. These descriptive results may be due to limitations in the data, intrinsic motivations, or external constraints.

Suggested Citation

  • Francisca M. Antman & Kirk B. Doran & Xuechao Qian & Bruce A. Weinberg, 2024. "Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 114, pages 528-534, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:114:y:2024:p:528-34
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241129
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20241129
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://doi.org/10.3886/E201802V1
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20241129.ds
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1257/pandp.20241129?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Francisca M. Antman & Kirk B. Doran & Xuechao Qian & Bruce A. Weinberg, 2024. "Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 114, pages 226-231, May.
    2. Xavier D'Haultfoeuille & Christophe Gaillac & Arnaud Maurel, 2024. "Linear Regressions with Combined Data," Papers 2412.04816, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2025.
    3. D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier & Gaillac, Christophe & Maurel, Arnaud, 2025. "Linear Regressions with Combined Data," IZA Discussion Papers 18276, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:114:y:2024:p:528-34. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Michael P. Albert (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aeaaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.