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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars

  • Pascaline Dupas
  • Amy Handlan
  • Alicia Sasser Modestino
  • Muriel Niederle
  • Mateo SerĂ©
  • Haoyu Sheng
  • Justin Wolfers
  • Seminar Dynamics Collective
American Economic Review (Forthcoming)

Abstract

We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conference presentations, leveraging both human judgment and audio-processing algorithms to measure the number, tone and type of interruptions. Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters. We also find greater engagement of female audience members with female presenters, suggesting a potential role-model effect.

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