Academic career development refers to the process by which employers as well as scholars
working in research, teaching, and/or administrative roles in academic and higher education …

This article reviews the growing literature on the economics of sexual orientation and gender
identity, a field that did not exist thirty years ago. We summarize, evaluate, and synthesize …

This is the first comprehensive overview of the'science of science,'an emerging
interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern …

A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between
having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever …

We present a large-scale study of gender bias in occupation classification, a task where the
use of machine learning may lead to negative outcomes on peoples' lives. We analyze the …

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in top five (T5)
journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job …

Women are still a minority in the economics profession. By the mid-2000s, just under 35
percent of PhD students and 30 percent of assistant professors were female, and these …

We study the role of gender in the evaluation of economic research using submissions to
four leading journals. We find that referee gender has no effect on the relative assessment of …

Much has been written in the past two decades about women in academic science careers,
but this literature is contradictory. Many analyses have revealed a level playing field, with …

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back
and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a …