Does gender affect scientific productivity?: A critical review of the empirical evidence and a panel data econometric analysis for French physicists

Revue Economique

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-113

  Mairesse, Jacques ^a   Pezzoni, Michele ^b  

^a UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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EID: 84923943175     PISSN: 00352764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/reco.661.0065     Document Type: Review

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