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Do Evaluators Prefer Candidates of Their Own Gender?

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  • Vincent Chandler

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Increasing the number of female evaluators could help female candidates if evaluators prefer candidates of their own gender. I study whether there is any evidence of such preferences with a unique data set containing 10,500 scores given by 105 evaluators to 3,500 students in the humanities and social sciences who applied for a doctoral scholarship. On average, I find very weak evidence of same-gender preferences for male evaluators (p = 0.133). To better understand this effect, I also study same-gender preferences across the distribution of candidates, in subcommittees with different gender composition, and for evaluators from different disciplines. I show that male evaluators give higher scores to strong male candidates relative to those given by female evaluators. At the same time, male evaluators give higher scores to male candidates than do female evaluators when there is only one male evaluator in the subcommittee. The representation of men in a discipline does not seem to affect the scores given by evaluators. Overall, there is no clear evidence that replacing a male evaluator with a female one would help female candidates.

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  • Vincent Chandler, 2018. "Do Evaluators Prefer Candidates of Their Own Gender?," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 44(4), pages 289-302, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:44:y:2018:i:4:p:289-302
    DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2018-022
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    1. José J. Domínguez, 2021. "The Effectiveness of Committee Quotas; The Role of Group Dynamics," ThE Papers 21/12, Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the University of Granada..
    2. Marco Cozzi, 2020. "Public Funding of Research and Grant Proposals in the Social Sciences: Empirical Evidence from Canada," Department Discussion Papers 1809, Department of Economics, University of Victoria.

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