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Gender And The Publication Output Of Graduate Students: A Case Study, Michele Pezzoni, Jacques Mairesse, Paula Stephen, Julia Lane

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We examine gender differences among the six PhD student cohorts 2004–2009 at the California Institute of Technology using a new dataset that includes information on trainees and their advisors and enables us to construct detailed measures of teams at the advisor level. We focus on the relationship between graduate student publications and: (1) their gender; (2) the gender of the advisor, (3) the gender pairing between the advisor and the student and (4) the gender composition of the team. We find that female graduate students coauthor on average 8.5% fewer papers than men; that students writing with female advisors publish …