The gender gap in citations of articles published in two demographic economics journals
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The gender gap in citations of articles published in two demographic economics journals Shoshana Grossbard1 Tansel Yilmazer ●
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Lingrui Zhang3
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Received: 30 August 2019 / Accepted: 2 September 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This paper investigates gender differentials in citations of articles published between 2003 and 2014 in two journals specialized in Demographic Economics, the Journal of Population Economics (JPOP) and the Review of Economics of the Household (REHO). We utilize different definitions of authorship. Articles with female corresponding authors receive 24% more citations than articles with male corresponding authors. Citations go up by 36% when there is a female co-author. We did not detect any significant associations between citations and male co-authors. In addition, citations go up with the proportion of female authors. We discuss some potential explanations for our findings. Keywords Citations Gender Gap ●
JEL Classifications A14 I23 D10 J10 and J16 ●
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1 Introduction Author’s gender may influence a number of outcomes related to academic success, including the number of publications and impact of these publications, as measured by the number of citations. Our goal here is to contribute to the literature on how author(s)’gender is associated with the number of citations of manuscripts published in two journals specialized in Demographic Economics, Journal of Population
* Tansel Yilmazer [email protected] 1
Department of Economics, San Diego State University, IZA and CESifo, San Diego, CA, USA
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Department of Human Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Economics (JPOP) and Review of Economics of the Household (REHO). These two journals cover mostly the economics of labor supply, wages, health, family, marriage, and fertility, topics that have been traditionally of more interest to women.1 Gender gaps in citations of articles in Demographic Economics may differ from those of articles in top journals that tend to cover topics of more general interest. The number of citations an article receives can be a function of (1) its intrinsic quality, and (2) the match between author and readers (including homophily). Gender and discrimination may play a role in both mechanisms, as we discuss in Section II. Recent studies have examined whether there is a gender gap in citations of economics articles.2 Three studies examined papers published in the top five economics journals.3 Two of these studies – Bransch and Kvasnicka (2017) and Hamermesh (2018) – report gender neutrality in citations of economics articles. The third study, Hengel and Moon (2019), finds that female-authored articles are more likely to be cited than male-authored articles. This is also the conclusion of Card et al. (2020) based on a different set of four top economics journals.4 We analyze citations for 816 articles published in JPOP or REHO from 2003 to
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