| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17474 |
| DP17474 Women in economics: the role of gendered references at entry in the profession | |
| Audinga Baltrunaite; Alessandra Casarico; Lucia Rizzica | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-07-15 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the presence and the extent of gender differences in reference letters for graduate students in economics and how these may affect the start of young researchers' careers. To these ends, we build a novel rich dataset covering ten cohorts of academic job market applicants to two top institutions hiring on the international market. We collect information from the application packages and conduct text analysis of reference letters using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques in order to measure gender differences in the style and content of the letters. We then combine the resulting measures with information on the applicants’ subsequent labor market outcomes as extrapolated from the main online repositories. Our results reveal that male and female candidates receive different support from their sponsors and are described in systematically different terms. While female advisors talk more about personal characteristics, only male advisors do so at a different extent for male and female candidates. Such differences in how candidates are talked about affect subsequent career outcomes and explain a non-negligible part (5 to 8% approximately) of the observed gender gaps. |
| 主题 | Organizational Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Gender bias Research institutions Professional labor markets |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17474 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546568 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Audinga Baltrunaite,Alessandra Casarico,Lucia Rizzica. DP17474 Women in economics: the role of gendered references at entry in the profession. 2022. |
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