Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299907 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16979
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM) researchers are more likely to write dissertations in some unexpected sub-fields of economics, but limited evidence that they are more likely to write dissertations on racial topics once we include basic controls. These descriptive results may be due to limitations in the data, intrinsic motivations, or external constraints.
Subjects: 
economic research
race and ethnicity
dissertation
JEL: 
I23
J15
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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