Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296671 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP22/25
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
academic conference
discrimination
gender
JEL: 
A1
D83
J16
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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