Replication files for the authority gap paper

This repository contains replication files for the paper: "Do female experts face an authority gap?" by Hans Henrik Sievertsen and Sarah Smith.

Instructions

This repository contains all raw data, R scripts, Stata do files and copies of the qualtrics surveys (main and follow-up) to replicate the findings in the paper.

If you have any questions or identify mistakes, please do not hesitate to contact us (mail@hhsievertsen.net).

Folders

main

Contains all chart files in the manuscript and a subset of tables generated by the file "2_analysis.do". The remaining tables are created manually based on the Stata output by the do-file.

rawdata

• "aiphotos.dta": chatgpt characterization of the expert photos
• "inst.dta": manually collected background information on the experts
• "code_about.xlsx": the survey response to what the respondents' thought the survey was about and the coded classificaitons.
• "q1.xlsx" to "q10.xlsx": the scrapped expert responses
• "Voices_Expert_Baseline_Prolific_1 July 2023.xlsx": the raw output from the baseline survey generated by Qualtrics.
• "Voices_Expert_Prolific_12 July 2023_18.56.xlsx": the raw output from the main survey generated by Qualtrics.
• "Voices_Expert_NoInstitution_Prolific_20 September 2024_10.51.xlsx": the raw output from the follow-up survey generated by Qualtrics.

scripts

1. "0_load_raw_prolific_data_and_make_long_survey1.R" loads the file "Voices_Expert_Prolific_12 July 2023_18.56.xlsx", reshapes it and creates a Stata dta file.
2. "0_load_raw_prolific_data_and_make_long_survey2.R" loads the file "Voices_Expert_NoInstitution_Prolific_20 September 2024_10.51.xlsx", reshapes it and creates a Stata dta file.
3. "1_clean_data.do" loads the dta files created by 1 and 2. Prepares and saves the dataset "analysisdata.dta".
4. "2_analysis.do" loads "analysisdata.dta" files created by 3. Creates all results and stores them in the main folder (unless they are manually created in the paper)

temporarydata

• contains files created by the files in the scripts folder.

docs

• "qualtrics_survey_main.pdf" copy of the main survey from Qualtrics.
• "qualtrics_survey_follow-up.pdf" copy of the follow-up survey from Qualtrics.