Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305682 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17240
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyze the impact of evaluator and candidate gender on the language used in academic evaluations using data on 295,000 evaluation reports for applicants seeking professorial promotion across all academic fields in Italy. In this context, candidates are assessed by a national-level committee composed of five randomly selected evaluators from the corresponding field. We observe that the language used in evaluation reports varies significantly with applicants' productivity and professional ties to evaluators, but we find no indication that the language of the assessments depends on the gender of either the candidates or the evaluators.
Subjects: 
academic evaluations
women in academia
gendered language
JEL: 
I23
J16
J71
M51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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