• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: TOP RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS PERSISTENCE: GENDER AS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
  • Contributor: Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde
  • Published: MIT Press, 2013
  • Published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 95 (2013) 1, Seite 273-285
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00275
  • ISSN: 1530-9142; 0034-6535
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  • Description: The paper contributes to the debate on top performance in research productivity, its persistence over time, and the impact of gender. It uses a panel data set comprising the publications of all biomedical and exact scientists at the University of Leuven in the period 1992 to 2001. We find that women have a significant lower probability of reaching top performance for the first time in their career, particularly for top performance measured through citations, but there is no evidence for a gender bias hindering repeated top performance. On the contrary, women seem to persist in top performance more easily than men do.