Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain …

The landscape of gender in education and the workforce has shifted over the past decades:
women have made gains in representation, equitable pay, and recognition through awards …

This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a
quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context …

I use readability scores to test if referees and/or editors apply higher standards to women's
writing in academic peer review. I find:(i) female-authored papers are 1-6 percent better …

The under-attribution of women's contributions to scientific scholarship is well known and
well studied. One measure of this under-attribution is the citation gap between men and …

Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate
whether higher writing standards contribute to the problem. I find that (i) female-authored …

The productivity and performance of men is generally rated more highly than that of women
in controlled experiments, suggesting conscious or unconscious gender biases in …

While women comprise over half of all undergraduate students in the United States, they
account for less than one-third of economics majors. From there, the proportion of women at …

Based on a dataset that we collected from the top research institutions in economics around
the globe (including universities, business schools, and other organizations, such as central …

We study mentorship in scientific collaborations, where a junior scientist is supported by
potentially multiple senior collaborators, without them necessarily having formal supervisory …