Abrevaya, Jason; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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 …’ and authors' gender. With substantial research showing gender differences in fairness, the results suggest that an ethos …