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Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)? / Jason Abrevaya, Daniel S. Hamermesh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abrevaya, Jason.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15972.
- NBER working paper series no. w15972
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Charity and Favoritism in the Field Are Female Economists Nicer
- Charity and Favoritism in the Field
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2010.
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