Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence

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Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 367-393

  Dolado, Juan J ^a   Felgueroso, Florentino ^b   Almunia, Miguel ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender segregation; Men and women economists; Multinomial logit models; Path dependence; Research fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864819599     PISSN: 18694187     EISSN: 18694195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13209-011-0065-4     Document Type: Article

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