TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abrevaya,Jason
AU  - Hamermesh,Daniel S.
TI  - Charity and Favoritism in the Field:  Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15972
PY  - 2010
Y2  - May 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15972
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15972.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jason Abrevaya
Department of Economics
University of Texas
Speedway Avenue
Austin, TX 78712-1173 USA
E-Mail: abrevaya@eco.utexas.edu

Daniel S. Hamermesh
Department of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1173
Tel: 512/475-8526
Fax: 512/471-3510
E-Mail: hamermes@eco.utexas.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -