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on Sociology of Economics |
| By: | Fabrizio Core; Moqi Groen-Xu; Ioanna Lachana |
| Abstract: | We provide novel evidence on the media coverage of business and economics scholars. We document a large gender gap, especially among financial economists. Male scholars are 9% more likely to be covered (16% in finance) and appear in 7% more articles (25%). The gap cannot be explained by topic choice: it persists in the subsample of articles that mention research papers. Here, male co-authors are more likely to be named than female co-authors of tthe same papers. Consistent with demand-side explanations, male journalists are less likely to write about female researchers. Female researchers do not engage in less outreach: female researchers are just as likely to comment on topics outside their research. We provide a public version of the coverage instances in our data. |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:not:notnic:2026-12 |
| By: | Romanyuk, Andriy; Corsini, Alberto; Ganguli, Ina; Lissoni, Francesco |
| Abstract: | We investigate the effects of the introduction of the first visa scheme for foreign researchers in France (the carte de sejour "scientifique-chercheur") introduced in 1998 on the post-graduation stay rates of foreign-born doctoral graduates at French universities. We build a novel dataset containing all doctoral graduates in STEM disciplines from 1992 to 2002 and their scientific publications. We distinguish between non-EU graduates, to whom the carte de sejour applied, and French or other EU graduates, to whom it did not using a name-based ethnicity analysis. We then assess short- and long-term career stay outcomes using graduates’ post-PhD publication activity and affiliation locations, and identify those who later become doctoral supervisors themselves. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy with repeated cross-sectional cohorts of graduates, we find no meaningful effects of the visa policy. These results are robust across the different career stay outcomes and alternative implementations of our name analysis. We discuss three possible reasons for this lack of impact, and its implications for talent attraction policies in Europe. |
| Keywords: | International migration, Migration policy, Scientific research, Graduate studies |
| JEL: | F22 K37 O15 O3 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:esprep:344145 |
| By: | Thomas Drechsel; Dali Tsakadze |
| Abstract: | How leaders allocate their limited time and attention is an important question in economics. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel data set covering the daily calendars of three Federal Reserve Chairs, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Jerome Powell, containing more than 20, 000 calendar entries. We document several patterns. First, all Fed Chairs spend more than 30% of their documented meetings with Fed staff, highlighting the crucial role of economists in the Fed's decision process. Second, interactions with the media became more frequent during Bernanke's tenure and remained important until the end of Powell's tenure. Third, Powell held significantly more meetings with lawmakers than both Yellen and Bernanke, reflecting an increasing need for the Fed to engage with political actors. Beyond these trend patterns, we examine the time allocation of Fed Chairs at business cycle frequencies and show how different activities respond to shifts in the macroeconomic environment. Finally, we place our findings in historical context using the available calendars of earlier Fed Chairs, including Alan Greenspan. |
| JEL: | D71 D72 E58 |
| Date: | 2026–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:35913 |