The economics literature on gender has expanded considerably in recent years, fueled in
part by new sources of data, including from experimental studies of gender differences in …

Feminist economics was produced by the deployment of relatively diverse research under a
single academic label. This article offers a global picture of the first years of feminist …

51. See, for example, Frederick Rudolph, The American College and University: A History
(New York: Knopf, 1962), 406–7. 52. Perhaps most telling is the conversation reported by …

Women are substantially under-represented in the field of economics: their progress is slow
and just few women reach top positions. From the 1980s, studies document the clear …

We examine the determinants of membership into the National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER) using data from all tenured and tenure-track economists at R1 universities …

This paper is the first to give a comprehensive overview of the various conditions that deter
women from pursuing an economics major and that contribute to the low numbers of female …

This paper introduces twin special issues of the Revue d'Économie Politique on the role that
seminars, workshops and conferences have played in the history of economics in the 20th …

Drawing on archival data and oral histories, this paper examines the history of the Eastern
Economic Association from its beginnings in 1974 to its 50th anniversary in 2024. It sheds …

Studies of the political power of economic knowledge have tended to foreground the role of
causal claims in the form of grand theories or more narrow findings produced by …

To support broader global efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in economics, this paper
provides a statistical picture of the gender composition of the economics profession in …