Innovative Ideas and Gender (In)Equality

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Koffi, Marlene
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20211811
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 2207-2236
• 关键词: economics; citations; science; women; diversity

摘要

This paper analyzes recognition of women's innovative ideas compared to men's using bibliometric data in economics, mathematics, and sociology. I establish similarities between papers to construct relevant counterfactual citations. On average, all-female papers receive 10 percent fewer citations than all-male papers, a disparity reduced by 40 percent when considering team sizes and disappearing in most fields with authors' publication records. Additionally, strong in-group preferences emerge: All-male teams omit more papers with women, and vice versa. Accounting for publication histories, female scholars are cited 0 percent (economics) to 11 percent (mathemat-ics) less, with early-career women enduring a 9-14 percent citation penalty. (JEL A14, C45, I23, J16)