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Are economics conferences gender-neutral? Evidence from Ireland

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  • Margaret Samahita
  • Kevin Devereux

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We study gender inequality in conference acceptance using data from the Irish Economic Association annual conference from 2016 to 2022, exploiting the introduction of anonymised submission in 2021 to study the effect of blinding. While no gender gap is observed in the organisers’ acceptance decisions, there is an indication of in-group gender bias at the reviewer stage. In particular, male reviewers persistently give higher scores to male-authored papers. Evidence suggests that the bias stems from unconscious stereotyping against lesser-known female authors. Anonymisation eliminates the in-group bias of male reviewers, but introduces a bias in favour of male authors for female reviewers.

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  • Margaret Samahita & Kevin Devereux, 2022. "Are economics conferences gender-neutral? Evidence from Ireland," Working Papers 202225, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:202225
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    JEL classification:

    • A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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