Top Research Productivity and Its Persistence: Gender as a Double-Edged Sword
利用鲁汶大学1992-2001年生物医学和精密科学家的发表数据，发现女性首次达到顶尖生产力的概率更低，但一旦达到后，持续保持顶尖表现比男性更容易。
The paper contributes to the debate on top performance in research productivity, its persistence over time, and the impact of gender. It uses a panel data set comprising the publications of all biomedical and exact scientists at the University of Leuven in the period 1992 to 2001. We find that women have a significant lower probability of reaching top performance for the first time in their career, particularly for top performance measured through citations, but there is no evidence for a gender bias hindering repeated top performance. On the contrary, women seem to persist in top performance more easily than men do. © 2013 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.