GENDER BIAS IN OPINION AGGREGATION

Gender biases have been documented in many areas including hiring, promotion, or performance evaluations. Many of these decisions are made by committees. We experimentally investigate whether committee deliberation contributes to gender biases. In our experiments, participants perform a real effort task and then rate the other participants. Across treatments we vary extent possible. find that increases explore several mechanisms test two interventions. Randomizing order speaking does not reduce bias, but an information intervention where raters informed bias prior sessions does.