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Field Specializations among Beginning Economists: Are There Gender Differences?

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  • Eva Sierminska
  • Ronald L. Oaxaca

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We examine the process underlying field specialization among beginning economists. Our multivariate logit framework accommodates single- and dual-field specializations with correlated choices. Including field-specific relative salaries and expected probabilities of academic employment is a novel aspect of this research. After conditioning on personal, economic, and institutional variables, we find that women graduate students are less likely to specialize in labor/health, macro/finance, industrial organization, public economics, and development/growth/international fields and are more likely to specialize in agricultural/resource/environmental fields. The Duncan dissimilarity index suggests that 14 percent of either sex would have to change specialization in order to achieve complete parity.

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  • Eva Sierminska & Ronald L. Oaxaca, 2021. "Field Specializations among Beginning Economists: Are There Gender Differences?," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 111, pages 86-91, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:111:y:2021:p:86-91
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20211030
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    1. Sierminska, Eva & Oaxaca, Ronald L., 2022. "Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    2. Filandri, Marianna & Pasqua, Silvia & Priori, Eleonora, 2023. "Breaking through the glass ceiling. Simulating policies to close the gender gap in the Italian academia," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).

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    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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