This week in research #96

Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:

• Andersson et al. (open access) analyse data from an experiment where they randomly assigned a male or female name to the instructions given by the online teachers in an introductory economics course in Sweden, and find that there is no bias against the female mentor in student evaluations of helpfulness, knowledge, or response time (an unusual result, given that student evaluations of teaching are well-known to exhibit gender bias)
• Cuevas et al. (open access) use data on the frequency of 45,397 Facebook interests to study how the difference in revealed preferences between men and women changes with a country’s degree of gender equality, finding that, for preference dimensions that are systematically biased toward the same gender across the globe, differences between men and women are larger in more gender-equal countries, while for preference dimensions with a gender bias that varies across countries, the opposite holds
• Gucciardi and Ruberti (open access) confirm that there is a home advantage in ATP tennis using data from 2000 to 2022, and that individualistic players exhibiting a stronger home advantage, unlike collectivistic ones