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Gender Gaps in the Federal Reserve System
To better understand the stalled progress of women in economics, we construct new data on women’s representation and research output in one of the largest policy institutions—the Federal Reserve System. We document a slight increase in women’s representation over the past 20 years, in line with academic trends. We also document a significant gender gap in research output, especially for years in which economists have greater domestic responsibilities, but nearly absent gender gaps in policy output and career progression. This work complements existing research on women in academia, ...
New Tool Reveals Potential GDP Gains from Closing Racial and Gender Gaps
A simulation shows how much each U.S. state’s economy could have gained if gaps in various labor market measures—earnings, hours, education and employment—were closed.