Charity and favoritism in the field
Subtitle: Are female economists nicer (to each other)?
By: Jason Abrevaya, Daniel S. Hamermesh
Contributors: Hamermesh, Daniel S.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15972; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15972.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former's recommendations.  Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor do we find any effect of the interaction between the referees' and authors' gender.  With substantial research showing gender differences in fairness, the results suggest that an ethos of objectivity can overcome tendencies toward same-group favoritism/opposite-group discrimination"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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