Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Gender differences in research funding exist, but bias evidence is elusive and findings are contradictory. Bias has multiple dimensions, but in evaluation processes, bias would be the outcome of the reviewers’ assessment. Evidence in observational approaches is often based either on outcome distributions or on modeling bias as the residual. Causal claims are usually mixed with simple statistical associations. In this paper we use an experimental design to measure the effects of a cause: the effect of the gender of the principal investigator (PI) on the score of a research funding application (treatment). We embedded a hypothetical research application description in a field experiment. The subjects were the reviewers selected by a funding agency, and the experiment was implemented simultaneously with the funding call’s peer review assessment. We manipulated the application item that described the gender of the PI, with two designations: female PI and male PI. Treatment was randomly allocated with block assignment, and the response rate was 100% of the population, avoiding problems of biased estimates in pooled data. Contrary to some research, we find no evidence that male or female PIs received significantly different scores, nor any evidence of same-gender preferences of reviewers regarding the applicants’ gender.<br /> <br /> </p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/4/3/594/117499/Gender-bias-in-funding-evaluation-A-randomized Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
