TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Görlitz, Katja
AU  - Sels, Tim
        TI  - Gender Differences in Performance Evaluations
        PY  - 2025/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17877
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17877
        AB  - This study analyzes the gender gap in self- and peer evaluations based on a laboratory
experiment. Five players performed a creativity task in a high-stakes winner-takes-all tournament.
The treatment without validation informed all players that evaluations that they will conduct
determine who will win. The treatment with public validation additionally informed them that they
can see an objective performance measure of all players (including themselves) at the end of the
experiment which is irrelevant for winning. The results show that men give themselves better selfevaluations compared to women when there is no validation. This gender difference vanishes
completely when providing public validation.
        KW  - self-evaluation
KW  - peer evaluation
KW  - public validation
KW  - gender
        ER  -