ECIN Replication Package For "Invisible Hurdles: Gender and Institutional Differences in the Evaluation of Economics Papers"

<div>This replication package accompanies the paper titled "Invisible Hurdles: Gender and
Institutional Differences in the Evaluation of Economics Papers" and includes data and code.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Abstract of the paper:<br></div><div>

How might the visibility of an author’s name and/or institutional
affiliation allow bias to enter the evaluation of economics papers? We ask
highly qualified journal editors to review abstracts of solo-authored papers
which differ along the dimensions of gender and institution of the author. We
exogenously vary whether editors observe the name and/or institution of the
author. We identify positive name
visibility effects for female economists and positive institution visibility
effects for economists at the top institutions. Our results suggest that male economists at top institutions benefit the
most from non-blind evaluations, followed by female economists (regardless of
their institution).</div><br>