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PSC Brown Bag Seminar: Francesca Truffa
PSC’s Brown Bag seminar series typically convenes Mondays at noon, at ISR Thompson Room 1430, and on Zoom.
Francesca Truffa from the University of Michigan (Economics) joins us March 31, 2025.
How Female Representation Changes Science: Evidence from College Coeducation
In recent decades, women have made remarkable progress in closing and reversing the gender gap in educational attainment. How has this dramatic increase in the female representation in higher education changed the kinds of research universities produce? We study a natural experiment that sharply increased female representation on college campuses: the switch of universities from male-only to coeducation. Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all-male US universities, including many elite and prominent research institutions, transitioned to coeducation. First, we find that between 1950 and 2000, there was a significant increase in female representation in academic publications across all fields, with social sciences leading this growth while STEM fields lagged behind. This increase was strongly correlated with existing female representation in each discipline. Second, combining a generalized difference-in-differences design with a large and comprehensive database on academic research, we document that after transitioning to coeducation, subfields that already had higher female representation before 1960 saw an increase in female researchers, overall research output, high-impact papers (top 10\% of citations), and citations to female-authored work, including citations by male researchers. A key mechanism behind these changes was the rise in female students entering these fields, which contributed to the expansion and increased productivity of academic departments.
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