https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/jean-felix-brouillette/Jean-Félix BrouilletteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/the-lost-marie-curies-and-foregone-economic-growth/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/the-lost-marie-curies-and-foregone-economic-growth/<p>Women accounted for only 3% of U.S. inventors in 1976 and still just 14% in 2023, a pace of convergence far slower than in law (3% to 49%) or medicine (6% to 46%) over the same period. Under the natural assumption of no innate gender differences in inventive potential, this persistent underrepresentation reveals a misallocation of talent. The paper asks how costly this misallocation is for aggregate productivity and welfare.</p>