Bridging barriers: How COVID-19 changed racial diversity in economics seminars

IF 2.1 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economics Letters Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112345

Marcus Biermann

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Abstract

In this paper, new facts are documented on the racial distribution of seminar speakers in economics. From a sample of 270 institutions, I determined that before the COVID-19 pandemic, 82.5% of seminars were given by White speakers, 13.9% of seminars were given by Asian speakers, and 3.6% by speakers with a Hispanic-Latino or Black background. The racial distribution of speakers did not change globally. However, the share of speakers from underrepresented minorities in the United States almost doubled with the introduction of virtual seminars during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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弥合障碍：COVID-19如何改变经济学研讨会的种族多样性

在这篇论文中，新的事实记录了经济学研讨会演讲者的种族分布。从270个机构的样本中，我确定在COVID-19大流行之前，82.5%的研讨会由白人演讲者主持，13.9%的研讨会由亚洲演讲者主持，3.6%的演讲者具有西班牙裔拉丁裔或黑人背景。发言者的种族分布在全球范围内没有变化。然而，在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，由于引入了虚拟研讨会，美国代表性不足的少数群体的演讲者比例几乎翻了一番。

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来源期刊

Economics Letters ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

5.00%

发文量

348

审稿时长

30 days

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