American Economic Review Vol. 107 No. 4 2017

Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

Manuel Bagues¹; Mauro Sylos-Labini²; Natalia Zinovyeva¹

¹ Department of Economics, Aalto University, PO Box 21240, FI-00076 AALTO, Helsinki, Finland (e-mail: ) · ² Department of Political Science, University of Pisa, Via Serafini 3, Pisa, Italy (e-mail: )

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.

DOI

10.1257/aer.20151211

Volume

107

Issue

4

Pages

1207-1238

Language

en

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