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Race and Gender

Academic Capture

Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks at #EconTwitter

Nicolás Ajzenman
In a field experiment conducted with economists on Twitter, the authors find that users who are identifiable as white, women, and PhD students affiliated with “top-ten” universities are more likely to receive follow-backs.
Antitrust and Competition

Race and the Consumer Welfare Standard

Bennett Capers
The consumer welfare standard employs a collective consumer in its model when evaluating possibly anticompetitive behavior. This aggregated approach fails to recognize that such...
Development

Mobile Internet Is Changing Employment in Developing Countries, but Not Always as Expected

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new research, Pinelopi...
Labor

Are There Really Gender Pay Differences in the CEO Labor Market?

Massimiliano Tani
The gender pay gap is a well-documented phenomenon in global labor markets, but this gap does not seem to apply to the pay of...
Globalization

Globalization’s Uneven Impact on Women’s Occupational Attainment

Yoav Roll
The literature on globalization’s impact on women’s workforce participation generally takes a positive outlook but still produces mixed results. In their research, Yoav Roll,...
Book Excerpts

How Societies and Families Perpetuate Gender Wealth Inequalities

Céline Bessière
In "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality," sociologists Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac show how ostensibly egalitarian property laws still...
Labor

How Women in the Workplace Has Changed Over the Last 50 Years

Stefania Albanesi
Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizable gender gaps still remain. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara...
Economic History

To Build an Equitable Economy, We Must Understand Capitalism’s Racist Heritage

Elizabeth Kennedy
American capitalism was built on racial exploitation, from the enslavement of Black people to institutionalized discrimination and its structural impact on our nation’s economic...
Fiscal Policy

More than Economics, Ideology Determines US Voters’ Preferences for Redistribution

Gustavo de Souza
The US stands out among developed economies for its comparatively low level of redistribution as a percentage of GDP. Gustavo de Souza examines the...
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