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Cabinet

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Cabinet is Silicon Canals' column on the political and policy forces shaping technology — regulation, capital, geopolitics, antitrust, and surveillance. Articles under this column are produced by our editorial team under the direction of the Chief Publisher.

Politics

Across 37,073 European Research Council applications, the same proposal scored higher with reviewers who shared the applicant’s citizenship and country of work — and that match moved the score about seven times as much as a shared gender did

Two economists contracted by the ERC's own executive agency compared how a single proposal was scored by reviewers who matched the applicant and reviewers who did not. Sharing both citizenship and country of work moved the first-stage project score by 0.164 of a point on a five-point scale. The link to actual funding decisions is weaker, and correlational.