Professors in Core Science Fields Are Not Always Biased against Women: Evidence from France

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics - Tập 7 Số 4 - Trang 53-75 - 2015
Thomas Breda1, Son Thierry Ly1
1Paris School of Economics, 48 Bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France (e-mail: ).

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We investigate the link between how male-dominated a field is, and gender bias against women in this field. Taking the entrance exam of a French higher education institution as a natural experiment, we find that evaluation is actually biased in favor of females in more male-dominated subjects (e.g., math, philosophy) and in favor of males in more female-dominated subjects (e.g., literature, biology), inducing a rebalancing of gender ratios between students recruited for research careers in science and humanities majors. Evaluation bias is identified from systematic variations across subjects in the gap between students’ nonanonymous oral and anonymous written test scores. (JEL I23, J16, J71)

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Tập 7 Số 4

53-75

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