When performance trumps gender bias: Joint vs. separate evaluation

Management Science

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1225-1234

  Bohnet, Iris ^a   Van Geen, Alexandra ^b   Bazerman, Max ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Decision making; Gender; Laboratory experiments; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; SEPARATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; BEHAVIORAL MODEL; BLIND EVALUATIONS; FUTURE PERFORMANCE; GENDER; INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84968782892     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2186     Document Type: Article

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