This project focuses on assembling data and conceptualizing models to estimate models of systemic sexism, racism and other biases among economics department faculties. The fraction of minorities and women at top universities has plateaued after a few decades of gradual improvement. This project tries to understand why.

We already have collected the names and substantial amounts of detailed information, including pictures from their web site, about US Economics Department faculty at the top ~100 departments, containing information about approximately 4000 faculty members building on a database previously collected by James Hasselbeck linked here file. I arranged to update it in spring/summer 2022 to contain AY22 information about the same departments, and would like to repeat that effort again this spring 2023 so that we will have three years of panel data at the department level. This will enable us to model CHANGES in faculty at these departments (hiring, promotions and departures).