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Coauthorship and the gender gap in top economics journal publications

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  • Pallab Ghosh
  • Zexuan Liu

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Coauthorship has become the new norm in academics since the early 1970s because it enhances productivity. However, the gender gap in economics journal publication continues to persist, which explains why there are fewer women than men in the economics profession. This study investigates the role of coauthorship in the gender gap in top economics journals for untenured faculty members in the US. We construct a unique dataset from the CVs of academic economists from the top 96 PhD-granting economics departments in the US. Our results suggest that, compared to men, women are matched with less productive unique coauthors because women begin their academic careers in lower-ranked economics departments than men, which is associated with institutional gender bias. This poor-quality matching can explain approximately 0.60 fewer publications in the top 20 economics journals during the untenured period.

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  • Pallab Ghosh & Zexuan Liu, 2020. "Coauthorship and the gender gap in top economics journal publications," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(7), pages 580-590, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:27:y:2020:i:7:p:580-590
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1644420
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