MIND THE GAP

Controlling for where these economists reside and when and where their PhDs were earned, we analyzed their responses to a wide variety of questions concerning contemporary policy, including support for austerity measures, regulation of high-risk financial transactions, deflationary policies, renewable energy and hydraulic fracturing, drilling in the Arctic, and genetically modified crops. The answers to these questions depend, of course, on whether men and women economists really do have different views on matters of economic policy. [...]recently, the only study that systematically looked at such gender differences was for economists based in the United States (2014). Included in this group are questions about the level of military spending, import openness, the impact of increases in the minimum wage on unemployment, the effect of moderate inflation, European Central Bank policy, deflationary policies, and deficit and debt limits.