Discrimination in Scientific Review - A natural field experiment on blind versus non-blind review

Fredrik Carlsson, Åsa Löfgren and Thomas Sterner

No 419, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the impacts of gender, as well as other author characteristics, on reviewers’ grading of papers submitted to an international conference in economics in Sweden in 2008. Correcting for other variables, including country and research field as well as researcher academic level, we focus on the difference in grades between blind and non-blind review treatments. We find little effect of non-blind reviewing and no significant evidence of gender or any other type of discrimination. Furthermore, we do not find any significant difference between the average grading by female and male reviewers.

Keywords: Gender discrimination; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2009-12-09
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Published as Carlsson, Fredrik, Åsa Löfgren and Thomas Sterner, 'Discrimination in Scientific Review - A natural field experiment on blind versus non-blind review' in Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, pages 500-519.

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