The Gender Gap in Citations: Lessons from Demographic Economics Journals
2018/12/18
研討會日期 : 2018-12-18
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Shoshana Grossbard
主持人 : Professor Tzu-Ting Yang
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Grossbard received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago in 1978. She is currently a Professor of Economics emerita at San Diego State University and a research fellow at the IZA Institute in Bonn, Germany, at CESifo in Munich, Germany, and at the Global Labor Organization in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Her research interests include labor economics, economics of the family, economics of gender, and law and economics.
演講摘要 : This paper investigates gender differentials in citations of articles published in two journals specialized in Demographic Economics, a field that has traditionally attracted relatively large numbers of women researchers. We find a 24% gender gap in citations favoring women among articles published in the Journal of Population Economics (JPOP) or the Review of Economics of the Household (REHO) between 2003 and 2014. Male corresponding authors get 48% more citations if they have at least one female co-author than if they write solo. Women get cited 55% more if they are sole author than do sole author men. Across subfields of demographic economics, citations of female authors increase as female representation in the subfield increases. The gender gap in citations favoring women is not found for authors with limited experience past graduate school, which supports an explanation for the gender gap based on authors’ prior experience with economics journals of higher rank.
