Replication data for: Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Manuel Bagues; Mauro Sylos-Labini; Natalia Zinovyeva

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Project Citation:

Bagues, Manuel, Sylos-Labini, Mauro, and Zinovyeva, Natalia. Replication data for: Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113091V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: randomized natural experiment; Scientific committees; gender discrimination

JEL Classification:
      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J71 Labor Discrimination

Geographic Coverage: Italy, Spain

Time Period(s): 2002 – 2012

Universe: All applicants for national scientific evaluations in Spain (2002-2006) and Italy (2012).

Data Type(s): administrative records data; other:

Methodology

Data Source: 1. Official data on the Italian "Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale" and the Spanish "Habilitacion" published by corresponding Ministries. 2. Database on Ph.D. dissertations in Spain: TESEO. 3. Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Knowledge 4. The database of publications in Spanish language Dialnet 5. The European Patent Office

Unit(s) of Observation: individuals,

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