Evaluating Yourself and Your Peers

Mingye Ma (), Gerhard Riener () and Youzong Xu ()
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Mingye Ma: University of Southampton
Gerhard Riener: University of Southampton
Youzong Xu: University of Nottingham Ningbo China

No 17267, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We explore the role of self- and peer evaluations in education, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We construct a model of (self-)deception to predict outcomes for scenarios with and without self-evaluation. By using unique data from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK university, we examine how students assess their own and their peers' contributions to group projects under varying self-assessment conditions. Our findings reveal a significant self-serving bias across both genders, though with subtle distinctions. Women, despite greater societal recognition, exhibit smaller self-social evaluation gaps (SSEG). The variation in abstention rates between treatments is mainly attributed to lowerperforming males. These findings indicate that the possibility of self-assessment influences rating behavior, potentially exacerbating gender disparities and affecting gender equity.

Keywords: higher education; incentives; field experiment; peer evaluation; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D01 D91 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64 pages
Date: 2024-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-hrm, nep-ipr, nep-ppm, nep-sog and nep-ure
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