Gender-specific favoritism in science
研究分析中国顶尖科学院十年选举数据，发现校友、同乡等社会关系对男性的偏袒强于女性，导致女性需更优成果才能成功。
Is the strength of favoritism from social ties gender-dependent? Collecting election data of the most distinguished Chinese scientific academies over a decade, we find favoritism from some social connections, such as sharing a hometown, college, or employer, between recruiters and candidates, can benefit men more than women. These results are robust to conservative econometrics specifications, alternative measures of social connections, quality of peer candidates, and gender composition of recruitment teams. As a result, women need better objective scientific achievements to succeed; most of this gender disparity is attributed to gender-specific favoritism. These results indicate the existence of gender imparity after controlling for social connections.