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1、WHENPERFORMANCETRUMPSGENDERBIAS:*JOINTVERSUSSEPARATEEVALUATIONIrisBohnetAlexandravanGeenMaxH.BazermanAbstractWeexamineanewinterventiontoovercomegenderbiasesinhiring,promotion,andjobassignments:an“evaluationnudge,”inwhichpeopleareevaluatedjointlyratherthanseparatelyregarding
2、theirfutureperformance.Evaluatorsaremorelikelytofocusonindividualperformanceinjointthaninseparateevaluationandongroupstereotypesinseparatethaninjointevaluation,makingjointevaluationthemoney-maximizingevaluationprocedure.Ourfindingsarecompatiblewithabehavioralmodelofinformat
3、ionprocessingandwiththeSystem1/System2distinctioninbehavioraldecisionresearchwherepeoplehavetwodistinctmodesofthinkingthatareactivatedundercertainconditions.JEL:C91;D03TotalWordCount:8,236*WethankPinarDogan,ChrisMuris,FarzadSaidi,RichardZeckhauser,andtheparticipantsofsemina
4、rsatHarvardUniversity,TilburgUniversity,theUniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley,theMOVEconferenceinBarcelona,andtheMBEESconferenceinMaastrichtformanyhelpfulcomments,andSaraSteinmetzforherresearchassistance.FinancialsupportfromtheWomenandPublicPolicyProgramandtheWomen’sEconomicOpp
5、ortunityInitiativeofExxonMobilaregratefullyacknowledged.Correspondingauthor:IrisBohnet,HarvardKennedySchool,79JFKStreet,Cambridge,MA02138;phone:6174955605;iris_bohnet@harvard.eduI.IntroductionGender-baseddiscriminationinhiring,promotion,andjobassignmentsisdifficulttoovercom
6、e(e.g.,Neumark,Bank,andVanNort[1996];RiachandRich[2002]).Inadditiontoconscioustaste-basedorstatisticaldiscrimination(Becker1978),recentevidencesuggeststhatgenderbiasesareautomaticallyactivatedassoonasevaluatorslearnthesexofaperson.Thesebiasesleadtounintentionalandimplicitdi
7、scriminationthatisnotbasedonarationalassessmentoftheusefulnessofsexinpredictingfutureperformance(e.g.,BanajiandGreenwald[1995];Greenwald,McGhee,andSchwarz[1998];Bertrand,Chugh,andMullainathan[2005]).Attemptstodecreasetheroleofgenderbiasesintheevaluationofcandidateshaveinclu
8、dedblindevaluationprocedures(GoldinandRouse2000)andgenderquotasonhiringandpromotio