Gender and Collaboration
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2021
Author(s)
Ductor, Lorenzo
Goyal, Sanjeev
Prummer, Anja
Language
English
View point(s)
Global
Discipline(s)
Abstract
We connect gender disparities in research output and collaboration patterns in economics. We rst document large gender gaps in research output. These output di erences are closely related to di erences 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 21%. We show that gender output gap persists and the gender di erences in collaboration networks are stable, despite the signi cant increase in the fraction of women in economics. This suggests that gender homophily plays a minor role in shaping collaboration.
Journal
The Review of Economics and Statistics
ISSN
1530-9142
Volume
105
Issue
6
Pagination
1366-1378