Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem
Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem
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DOI：
10.1257/jep.30.4.221
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
影响因子：
8.4
通讯作者：
Rouse, Cecilia Elena
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作者：
Bayer, Amanda;Rouse, Cecilia Elena
相对于总人口和其他学科而言，经济学专业的妇女和历来代表性不足的种族和少数民族成员不成比例地少。经济学领域的这种代表性不足存在于本科阶段，继续进入学院的行列，并且随着时间的推移几乎没有改善。它可能会妨碍学科，限制所处理问题的范围，并限制我们从新的和创新的角度理解熟悉问题的集体能力。在本文中，我们首先提供了有关该行业中妇女和代表性不足的少数群体人数的数据。然后，我们提供了一个概述目前的研究代表性不足的原因，突出的证据，可能是不太熟悉的经济学家。我们认为，含蓄的态度和机构的做法可能会导致妇女和少数民族在管道的各个阶段的代表性不足，呼吁新类型的研究和倡议，以解决这个问题。然后，我们审查证据的多样性如何影响生产力，并提出补救措施，以及有效性的调查结果。我们确定了几个有前途的做法，方案和未来的研究领域。
The economics profession includes disproportionately few women and members of historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups, relative both to the overall population and to other academic disciplines. This underrepresentation within the field of economics is present at the undergraduate level, continues into the ranks of the academy, and is barely improving over time. It likely hampers the discipline, constraining the range of issues addressed and limiting our collective ability to understand familiar issues from new and innovative perspectives. In this paper, we first present data on the numbers of women and underrepresented minority groups in the profession. We then offer an overview of current research on the reasons for the underrepresentation, highlighting evidence that may be less familiar to economists. We argue that implicit attitudes and institutional practices may be contributing to the underrepresentation of women and minorities at all stages of the pipeline, calling for new types of research and initiatives to attack the problem. We then review evidence on how diversity affects productivity and propose remedial interventions as well as findings on effectiveness. We identify several promising practices, programs, and areas for future research.