Gender and equality at top economics journals
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2020
Author(s)
Hengel, Erin
Moon, Eunyoung
Language
English
View point(s)
Global
Discipline(s)
Abstract
Using (asinh) citations as a proxy for quality, we show that female-authored papers published in top economics journals are, on average, higher quality than male-authored papers. Furthermore, men and women publish higher quality papers when they co-author with women instead of men—for example, the same senior male economist receives about 60 log points more citations when he co-authors with a junior woman as opposed to a junior man. Finally, variance in quality is consistently higher among published male-authored papers. Under strong—but we believe reasonable—distributional assumptions, we show that these findings imply top economics journals hold female-authored papers to higher standards and, as a result, do not publish the highest quality research.
Journal
Royal Economic Society
Pagination
58