Academic Research

female economics PhD students benefit tremendously from having female economics faculty around

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female Ph.D. students’ likelihood of publishing papers and securing academic positions. Male Ph.D. students in the same cohort benefit from this absence, seeing an increase in their publishing and placement prospects. Their estimates imply that “one additional female senior professor in each top-50 economics department would close one-third of the gender gap in representation among assistant professors at top-25 schools.”