The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4029327 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Stansbury (0000-0001-5174-8738, Anna Stansbury is Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.), Robert Schultz (0000-0002-8139-5782, Robert Schultz is a Researcher for SoFi, San Francisco, California.) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 207-230 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/jep.37.4.207 |
| OpenAlex | W4388291593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 5 |
It is well-documented that women and racial and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the economics profession, relative to both the general population and other academic disciplines. Less is known about the socioeconomic diversity of the economics profession. In this paper, we use data on parental education from the Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the socioeconomic background of US economics PhD recipients, as compared to other disciplines. We find that economics PhD recipients are substantially more likely to have highly educated parents, and less likely to have parents without a college degree, than PhD recipients in other non-economics disciplines. This is true for both US-born PhD recipients and non-US-born PhD recipients, but is particularly stark for the US-born. The gap in socioeconomic diversity between economics and other PhD disciplines has increased over the last five decades, and particularly over the last two decades
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economics education · Ethnic group · Higher education · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Higher Education Research Studies · Innovations in Educational Methods · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |