Gender Ratios at Top PhD Programs in Economics
Gender Ratios at Top PhD Programs in Economics is a scholarly work, published in 2011. The main subjects of the publication include gender gap, instrumental variables estimation, medical education, psychology, sexism, graduate school, class, class, sports economics, mathematics education, sex differences in humans, literary composing, labour economics, demographic economics, and gender diversity. The authors find, using instrumental variables analysis, robust evidence that this correlation is driven by the causal effect of the female faculty share on the gender composition of the entering PhD class.