What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity During the Pandemic?
Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2020-03-031
Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2020-31
78 Pages Posted: 30 Dec 2020 Last revised: 7 Apr 2021
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What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity During the Pandemic?
What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity During the Pandemic?
Date Written: April 6, 2021
Abstract
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.
Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, academic finance profession, research productivity, gender, family structure, tenure
JEL Classification: A22, A23, G0, I23, J13, J16, J22, J24, J44
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