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 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
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
Pascaline Dupas·The Seminar Dynamics Collective·Muriel Niederle·Alicia Modestino·Amy Handlan·Justin Wolfers·Haoyu Sheng·Mateo Seré
