%0 Report
        %A Ma, Mingye
%A Riener, Gerhard
%A Xu, Youzong
        %T Evaluating Yourself and Your Peers
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17267
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17267
        %X We explore the role of self- and peer evaluations in education, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We construct a model of (self-)deception to predict outcomes for scenarios with and without self-evaluation. By using unique data from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK university, we examine how students assess their own and their peers' contributions to group projects under varying self-assessment conditions. Our findings reveal a significant self-serving bias across both genders, though with subtle distinctions. Women, despite greater societal recognition, exhibit smaller self-social evaluation gaps (SSEG). The variation in abstention rates between treatments is mainly attributed to lowerperforming males. These findings indicate that the possibility of self-assessment influences rating behavior, potentially exacerbating gender disparities and affecting gender equity.
        %K higher education
%K incentives
%K field experiment
%K peer evaluation
%K gender