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Manuel Bagues | Zendy; Mauro Sylos Labini | Zendy; Natalia Zinovyeva | Zendy

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Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

Author(s) -

Manuel Bagues,

Mauro Sylos Labini,

Natalia Zinovyeva

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

american economic review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1944-7981

pISSN - 0002-8282

DOI - 10.1257/aer.20151211

Subject(s) - voting , joins , composition (language) , quality (philosophy) , psychology , social psychology , medical education , political science , computer science , medicine , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , programming language

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 towards female candidates. At the same time, male evaluators become less favorable towards female candidates as soon as a female evaluator joins the committee

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