Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35220 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3665
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study averages within two populations. The paper's contribution is primarily methodological, but I apply it, as an illustration, to data from the field of economics. No scientific bias or favoritism is found (although the Journal of Political Economy discriminates against its own Chicago authors). The test's methodology is applicable in most scholarly disciplines.
Subjects: 
Discrimination
citations
science
peer-review system
JEL: 
H8
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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