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Expanding the World Gender-Name Dictionary: WGND 2.0

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  • Gema Lax Martinez
  • Helena Saenz de Juano-i-Ribes
  • Deyun Yin
  • Bruno Le Feuvre
  • Intan Hamdan-Livramento
  • Kaori Saito
  • Julio Raffo

Abstract

This paper revisits the first World Gender Name Dictionary (WGND 1.0), allowing to disambiguate the gender in data naming physical persons (Lax Martínez et al., 2016). We discuss its advantages and limitations and propose an expansion based on updated data and additional sources. By including more than 26 million records linking given names and 195 different countries and territories, the resulting WGND 2.0 substantially increases the international coverage of its processor. As a result, it is particularly designed to be applied to intellectual property unit-record data naming inventors, designers, individual applicants and other creators disclosed in these data.

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  • Gema Lax Martinez & Helena Saenz de Juano-i-Ribes & Deyun Yin & Bruno Le Feuvre & Intan Hamdan-Livramento & Kaori Saito & Julio Raffo, 2021. "Expanding the World Gender-Name Dictionary: WGND 2.0," WIPO Economic Research Working Papers 64, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division.
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    Keywords

    Gender gap; Gender innovation metrics; Gender-name dictionary;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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