Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP15673
Authors: Anja Prummer; Sanjeev Goyal; Lorenzo Ductor
Abstract: We connect gender disparities in research output and collaboration patterns in economics. We first document large gender gaps in research output. These gaps persist across 50 years despite a significant increase in the fraction of women in economics during that time. We further show that output differences are closely related to differences in the co-authorship networks of men and women: women have fewer collaborators, collaborate more often with the same co-authors, and a higher fraction of their co-authors collaborate with each other. Taking into account co-authorship networks reduces the gender output gap by 18%.
Keywords: gender inequality; coauthorship networks; homophily
JEL Codes: D8; D85; J7; J16; O30
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| Gender differences in collaboration patterns (J16) | Research output disparities (D30) |
| Women produce fewer articles than men (J16) | Gender differences in collaboration patterns (J16) |
| Women have fewer collaborators than men (J16) | Gender differences in collaboration patterns (J16) |
| Women collaborate more frequently with the same coauthors (C92) | Gender differences in collaboration patterns (J16) |
| Women have a higher clustering coefficient (J16) | Gender differences in collaboration patterns (J16) |
| Women coauthor with more experienced but less productive colleagues (D13) | Research output disparities (D30) |