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Bagues, Manuel F., Sylos-Labini, Mauro and Zinovyeva, Natalia (2017) Does the gender composition of scientific committees matter? American Economic Review, 107 (4). pp. 1207-1238. doi:10.1257/aer.20151211 ISSN 0002-8282.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20151211
Abstract
We analyze how a larger presence of female evaluators affects committee decision-making using information on 100,000 applications to associate and full professorships in Italy and Spain. These applications were assessed by 8,000 randomly selected evaluators. A larger number of women in evaluation committees does not increase either the quantity or the quality of female candidates who qualify. Information from individual voting reports suggests that female evaluators are not significantly more favorable toward female candidates. At the same time, male evaluators become less favorable toward female candidates as soon as a female evaluator joins the committee.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education Q Science > Q Science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | |||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women in science -- Italy, Women in science -- Spain, Committees -- Sex differences , Education, Higher -- Sex differences, Women in higher education -- Italy, Women in higher education -- Spain | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | American Economic Review | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | American Economic Association | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0002-8282 | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 107 | |||||||||||||||
Number: | 4 | |||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1207-1238 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1257/aer.20151211 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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