Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from Coauthorship Patterns

Boschini, Anne; Sjögren, Anna

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“…The tendency of women to co-author papers at a different rate than men is discipline specific; in some fields women coauthor papers in equal numbers to men (McDowell et al 2005), in other fields women have significantly lower rates of co-authorship (Boschini and Sjogren 2007), and in others women co-author more frequently than men (Aleixandre-Benavent et al 2007). Collaboration with male co-authors brings female-authored publications to the attention of male-academic networks that are much more effective at gaining recognition than female networks (Hanson 2000).…”

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Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

2010

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Most academic disciplines have a gender bias that exists in the recognition of research publications: women's publications are cited at lower rates than men's publications. In this paper, we examined whether a similar gender bias existed for publications by dendrochronologists. Tree-ring research is a fairly small field where males outnumber females, and therefore the sample size was limited to 20 female dendrochronologists and 20 male dendrochronologists. It was determined that native language (English or non-native English speaker), current employment (government or academic), and gender of the first-author do not significantly influence a paper's probability of being cited. However, years since dissertation completion was a good predictor of a paper's citation rate. We suggest that the high productivity of female dendrochronologists and a pattern of co-authoring with male colleagues bring the work of females to the attention of their male colleagues and thus eliminate the gender bias in citation of women's work common to other disciplines.

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Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

2010

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“…Using JEL codes in publications, fields were assigned on the basis of the main bodies of published research. For some of the analysis, in line with Boschini and Sjögren (2007), we grouped the disaggregate JEL codes in 10 main fields, with the last one capturing "other fields" ("Other" in short). In some other instances, where less aggregation is more convenient, we use finer lists of either 20 JEL fields or 34 sub-fields on which Econphd.net offers information about the quality of publications (see Appendix B for details on aggregation procedures).…”

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“…3 However, as pointed out before, the existence of gender differences in the distribution across specific areas of research in this discipline, and the reasons behind potential disparity has attracted much less attention. Indeed, the only related works that we are aware of are McDowell et al (1999) and Boschini and Sjögren (2007) who analyze gender differences in co-authorship but not in research specialization. To the extent that choice of research fields may influence academic careers, analyzing the determinants of such choices may be helpful in understanding women's performance in economics in general.…”

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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence

Dolado

Felgueroso

Almunia

2011

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This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50 economics departments in 2005, as ranked by Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some behavioral implications from theories underlying such disparities. Our main findings are that the probability that a woman works on a given field is positively related to the share of women already working on that field (path-dependence), and that this phenomenon is better explained by women avoiding male-dominated fields than by men avoiding female dominated fields. This pattern, however, is weaker for younger female researchers who spread more evenly across fields.

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“…If men and women tend to do research in different subfields and evaluators overrate the importance of their own types of research, the lack of female evaluators might be detrimental for female candidates Perez-Villadoniga 2012, 2013). Second, research networks tend to be gendered (Boschini andSjögren 2007, Hilmer andHilmer 2007). If evaluators are mostly male, male candidates might have a better chance to be acquainted with committee members and could perhaps benefit from these connections (Zinovyeva and Bagues 2015;Bagues, Sylos-Labini, Zinovyeva 2015).…”

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Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

2015

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Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from Coauthorship Patterns

Cited by 130 publications

References 13 publications

Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

Lack of Gender Bias in Citation Rates of Publications by Dendrochronologists: What is Unique about this Discipline?

Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence

Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

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