What explains differences in finance research productivity during the pandemic?

Brad M. Barber (Graduate School of Management, UC Davis), Wei Jiang (Columbia Business School, NBER & ECGI), Adair Morse (University of California, Berkeley &U.S. Department of the Treasury), Manju Puri (Duke University, NBER & ECGI), Heather Tookes (Yale School of Management), Ingrid M. Werner (The Ohio State University & CEPR)

Based on a survey of AFA members, we analyze how demographics, time allocation, production mechanisms, and institutional factors affect research production during the pandemic. Consistent with the literature, research productivity falls more for women and faculty with young children. Independently, and novel, extra time spent teaching (much more likely for women) negatively affects research productivity. Also novel, concerns about feedback, isolation, and health have large negative research effects, which disproportionately affect junior faculty and PhD students. Finally, faculty who express greater concerns about employers’ finances report larger negative research effects and more concerns about feedback, isolation, and health

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Year of publication:	[2020]
Authors:	Barber, Brad M. ; Jiang, Wei ; Morse, Adair ; Puri, Manju ; Tookes, Heather ; Werner, Ingrid M.
Publisher:	[Columbus, Ohio] : The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics
Subject:	COVID-19 \| pandemic \| academic finance profession \| research productivity \| gender \| family structure \| tenure \| Coronavirus \| Bibliometrie \| Bibliometrics \| Geschlecht \| Gender \| Epidemie \| Epidemic \| Wissenschaftler \| Scientists \| Produktivität \| Productivity