Does politicizing ‘gender’ influence the possibility of conducting academic research? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Tünde Lénárd, Daniel Horn and Hubert Janos Kiss

Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 189, issue C

Abstract: We detect a significant negative effect of mentioning ‘gender’ as a research topic on conducting academic research in Hungary. Using a randomized information treatment involving a comprehensive sample of Hungarian education providers we find that they are less willing to cooperate in a gender-related future research compared to a research without this specification. Our results also indicate that this negative sentiment is clearly against gender and not against any topic covering social inequalities in general.

Keywords: Randomized experiment; Gender; Information treatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 C93 H39 I28 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109022

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