DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37118
title: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) Annual Survey of U.S. Economics Departments, United States, 1994-2020
title: Archival Version

description: This data release is based on a survey of Ph.D. and non-Ph.D. granting U.S. economics departments for the years 1994-2020 and 2006-2020, respectively. The primary source of data is the annual Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) surveys. CSWEP is a committee of the American Economic Association (AEA). These data are supplemented with data from the AEA's Universal Academic Questionnaire (UAQ) information when CSWEP data observations are missing for a given institution and year. Observations that are missing in both CSWEP and UAQ surveys are imputed using linear interpolation. This study includes variables on the number and composition of faculty, the number of undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students, and job placement status for Ph.D. graduates. Many of these variables are reported by gender.CSWEP has undertaken the collection of data on gender composition of faculty and students in both Ph.D. granting and non-Ph.D. granting U.S. economics departments since 1972.
description: The purpose of this study is to combine the annual CSWEP survey with data from the Universal Academic Questionnaire (UAQ) to show the gender composition of Ph.D. granting U.S. economics departments over time.
description: Information about the study design can be found on the CSWEP and UAQ sections of the American Economic Association web site.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: PhD Restricted-Use Data DS2: Non-PhD Restricted-Use Data DS3: Public-Use Aggregate Data
description: United States universities with Ph.D. programs in economics. Smallest Geographic Unit: University campus
description: Aggregate data are available for public download in Dataset 3. This includes the following files: Figure1.xlsx: Pipeline for Departments with Doctoral Programs Figure2.xlsx: Pipeline for Departments without Doctoral Programs Figure3.xlsx: Lock-Step Model: Percentage of women, by entering PhD cohorts Figure4.xlsx: Lock-Step Model: Percentage of women, by receiving-PhD cohort Figure5.xlsx: Undergraduate senior economics majors Figure6.xlsx: Comparison of self-reported and imputed data from Figure 1 Figure6a.xlsx: Comparison of self-reported and imputed data from Figure 2 Table1.xlsx: The Pipeline for Departments with Doctoral Programs: Percent and Number of Doctoral Students and Faculty who are Women Table2a.xlsx: The Pipeline for Top Departments: Percent and Numbers of Faculty and Students who are Women Table2b.xlsx: The Pipeline for Top Departments: Percent and Numbers of Faculty and Students who are Women Table3.xlsx: Percent Women Faculty and Students: Economics Departments without Doctoral Programs Table4.xlsx: Percent Women in Job Placements of New Ph.D.s from the Top Economics Departments Table5.xlsx: Percent Women in Job Placements of New Ph.D.s from All Other Economics Departments Table6.xlsx: New Ph.D. Job Placement by Gender and Department Rank, Current Year Table7.xlsx: Distribution of Top 20 Departments by Female Share of First Year PhD class, 2014-2020 Table8.xlsx: Number of Economics Departments, by Year and Type of Program