Assistant Professor of Finance at Michigan Ross (@MichiganRoss) | Financial Economist 💰📈 | Canadian 🇨🇦 | Grad of @Columbia_Biz @MITSloan @queensu
Ann Arbor, MI
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Was thrilled to present my research on gender disparities in patent citations at Darden! Grateful for all the insightful conversations.
Also, wow, what a beautiful campus!! @DardenMBA
Who is underciting? Using citation data, we discover male inventors often overlook female-led patents. Surprisingly, patent examiners show no bias.
Big Picture -- Once we mediate for patent quality reveals a bias -- female-written patents are undercited relative to the equivalent patent written by men.
We employ Causal Text Analysis (C-TEXT), to build two separate neural networks for males and females. This allows us to determine the expected number of citations an inventor of the opposite gender should have received.
Of course, untangling patent quality is challenging because we need to control what is written. Recognizing these textual differences is crucial for any empirical evaluation.
Surprisingly (to me) a naive analysis shows that patents authored by women receive fewer citations, even when accounting for factors like lawyer, examiner, art unit, and time.
Why is this the case? Could it be tied to patent quality? Let's delve deeper. 🤔
Curious about gender disparities in patent citations? Our study, using C-TEXT, uncovers a 10% undercitation of female lead-authored patents. #GenderEquality #EconTwitter #MachineLearning #Patents 📄🔍
Here is a quick summary... 1/n
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Excited to be a part of the Mitsui Finance Symposium on Venture Capital and Private Equity. Can't wait to learn from the talks and discussions @MichiganRoss
Excited to be a part of the Northeastern Finance Conference. Looking forward to a great event! @NU_Business
We study how firms coalesce around standards.
Those that helped form the standards (in red 🔴) provide important guidance to other firms that later decided to disclosure
