Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments

Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women’s Influence in Teams

“…While women experience dramatically lower levels of both perceived and actual influence and authority, men face no such influence deficit. This is consistent with prior studies which find no disadvantage for men when they are in the minority across a wide range of professional and educational settings (Radbruch and Schiprowski, 2023;Shan, 2023;Delfino, 2021).…”

“…Challenges appear to be especially acute in settings where women have been historically underrepresented (Shan, 2023;Bordalo et al, 2016;Coffman, 2014). This leads to outcomes such as gender disparities in leadership because women correctly presume they will have less support from their team when men are in the majority (Radbruch and Schiprowski, 2023;Born et al, 2020); women taking and getting less credit for joint work with men (Coffman et al, 2021;Koffi, 2020;Isaksson, 2018;Sarsons, 2017); and women doing more of the "non-promotable" tasks in groups (Babcock et al, 2017).…”

Simultaneous Decision-Making of Juries: Evidence from the Paris Labor Court

“…Evidence of path dependency is also found in other contexts such as MBA admissions(Simonsohn and Gino (2013)), speed dating(Bhargava and Fisman (2014)), physician decisions(Jin et al (2020)), and research grant attributions(Radbruch and Schiprowski (2022)). 6 Although not explicitly stated in these papers, all of them study sequential judicial decisions.…”

Essays on Technology and Society

“…Exploring the factors affecting decision-making in hiring processes has long been of key concern for policy-makers, given the consequential nature of such decisions for the labor force structure in the long term. Even minor aspects, such as the sequencing of candidates evaluated in a hiring process, can have substantial impact in the evaluation of candidates (Radbruch & Schiprowski, 2020).…”