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Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of gender inequality, labor force dynamics, welfare reform, and household decision making. It delves into topics such as the impact of income tax policies on female labor supply, the effects of welfare reform on work incentives, and the role of gender in shaping economic development and intrahousehold resource allocation.

  • Gender Inequality
  • Labor Force Participation
  • Welfare Reform
  • Income Tax
  • Household Decision Making
  • Economic Development
  • Female Labor Supply
  • Intrahousehold Allocation
  • Social Policy
  • Work and Family
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Which countries lead Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.5k and 351 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 351 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 307 works
  4. 4 Germany 240 works
  5. 5 China 229 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 227 works
  7. 7 Australia 145 works
  8. 8 Italy 145 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 136 works
  10. 10 Canada 130 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 44.0%India: 10.3%United Kingdom: 9.0%Germany: 7.0%6 others listed: 29.7%44%largest
United States1,501 · 44.0%India351 · 10.3%United Kingdom307 · 9.0%Germany240 · 7.0%6 others listed1,013 · 29.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics publishes the most Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics research, followed by Sapienza University of Rome and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IZA - Institute of Labor EconomicsGermany 32 works
  2. 2 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 30 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 30 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 29 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 29 works
  6. 6 National Bureau of Economic ResearchUnited States 25 works
  7. 7 University of ChicagoUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 Australian National UniversityAustralia 22 works
  10. 10 Leibniz AssociationGermany 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics include Donald B. Rubin, Victoria Clarke and Martin McKee.

  1. 1 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  2. 2 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  3. 3 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  4. 4 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  5. 5 Nelson Alvis‐Guzmán Colombia 216k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics is "Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter?" (Ronald Andersen, 1995), with 9,924 citations. Next come "College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage" (5,986) and "Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving" (5,951).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter? Ronald Andersen · Journal of Health and Social Behavior Mar 1995 9,924
2 College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage D. Gale, L. S. Shapley · American Mathematical Monthly 1962 5,986
3 Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving James Andreoni · The Economic Journal Jun 1990 5,951
4 Gender Differences in Preferences Rachel T. A. Croson, Uri Gneezy · Journal of Economic Literature May 2009 5,912
5 Economics and Identity* George A. Akerlof, Rachel E. Kranton · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Aug 2000 5,719
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Where is Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bonn and Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 124 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 100 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 76 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 56 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 51 works
  6. 6 CambridgeUnited States 47 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 46 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 45 works
  9. 9 BonnGermany 42 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BonnDE · 41.5 works11×
  2. Washington D.C.US · 123.6 works6.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Michigan, Bocconi University and University of Wisconsin–Madison score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.07%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Bocconi UniversityUniversity of Wiscon…University of MichiganSapienza University …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of MichiganUnited States 70.714.3%4.4×30 +31.0%
2Bocconi UniversityItaly 67.236.1%25.2×10 -2.9%
3University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 64.920.9%5.8×24 +0.7%
4Sapienza University of RomeItaly 64.412.5%5.8×30 +495.2%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 63.518.8%2.9×19 +11.8%
6Australian National UniversityAustralia 62.311.0%9.8×22 +36.0%
7London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 62.212.7%19.5×21 -5.5%
8University of ChicagoUnited States 58.514.0%6.5×24 -12.9%
9University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 57.220.7%3.0×15 +42.1%
10Yale UniversityUnited States 56.719.7%2.9×14 +26.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, country by country

Is Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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