Are Disagreements Among Male and Female Economists Marginal at Best?: A Survey of Aea Members and Their Views on Economics and Economic Policy

May, Ann Mari; McGarvey, Mary G.; Whaples, Robert

doi:10.1111/coep.12004

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“…Gender is added to our analysis to see whether male and female economists differ in their outlook (May et al . ; May et al . ).…”

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Values of Economists Matter in the Art and Science of Economics

Dalen¹

2019

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Summary What role do personal values play in the practice of economists? By means of a survey among economists working inside and outside academia in the Netherlands, we present novel insights on their personal values, how these differ from the average citizen, and how values impact their economic views and their methodological choices. Three overarching values summarize the value structure of economists: achievement, serving the public interest, and conformity to rules. Subsequent tests are performed to see whether these values affect (1) their opinion on economic propositions and (2) their attitudes towards methodological principles in economics. For the majority of economic propositions, personal values matter. Especially the value of serving the public interest has a strong effect on their economic view. Furthermore, it seems that economists who value achievement are the ones who are more likely to embrace mainstream methodological principles: thinking predominantly in terms of efficiency, rationality, and competition, believing that economic knowledge is objective and transparently produced and in agreement with Milton Friedman's view on positive economics. Female economists are at some notable points less convinced of market solutions and have more trust in the government in serving the public interest.

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“…Gender is added to our analysis to see whether male and female economists differ in their outlook (May et al . ; May et al . ).…”

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Values of Economists Matter in the Art and Science of Economics

Dalen¹

2019

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“…While May et al (2014) found evidence of gender differences in the views of US economists on economic policy, the extent of such differences among European economists is relatively unknown. In general, few studies have been published using survey data to examine the degree of consensus among European economists.…”

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Gender and European Economic Policy: A Survey of the Views of European Economists on Contemporary Economic Policy

May

McGarvey

Kučera

2018

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Summary In this study, we survey male and female economists located at universities in the European Union to determine if there are gender differences in views on core economic principles and a wide variety of contemporary policy issues. Controlling for country of residence, degree vintage, and location of Ph.D. earned, we find statistically significant differences in views of male and female economists in all of the topic areas examined. These results lend support to the notion that gender diversity in policy‐making circles may be an important aspect in broadening the menu of public policy choices.

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“…Models 4 through 6 check the robustness of these results by adding control variables. We expect female (May et al 2014) and foreign-born (Fourcade 2009) economists to be somewhat more interventionist, whereas older economists and those with private sector and central banking experience may be more pro-market. With the exception of female, coefficients are in the expected direction, though none are significant at the .05 level.…”

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Consensus, Polarization, and Alignment in the Economics Profession

Gunten¹,

Martin²,

Teplitskiy³

2016

SocScience

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Scholars interested in the political influence of the economics profession debate whether the discipline is unified by policy consensus or divided among competing schools or factions. We address this question by reanalyzing a unique recent survey of elite economists. We present a theoretical framework based on a formal sociological approach to the structure of belief systems and propose alignment, rather than consensus or polarization, as a model for the structure of belief in the economics profession. Moreover, we argue that social clustering in a heterogeneous network topology is a better model for disciplinary social structure than discrete factionalization. Results show that there is a robust latent ideological dimension related to economists' departmental affiliations and political partisanship. Furthermore, we show that economists closer to one another in informal social networks also share more similar ideologies.

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Are Disagreements Among Male and Female Economists Marginal at Best?: A Survey of Aea Members and Their Views on Economics and Economic Policy

Cited by 77 publications

References 13 publications

Values of Economists Matter in the Art and Science of Economics

Values of Economists Matter in the Art and Science of Economics

Gender and European Economic Policy: A Survey of the Views of European Economists on Contemporary Economic Policy

Consensus, Polarization, and Alignment in the Economics Profession

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