报告题目：The Detection Gap: How Precise Screening Enlarges and Conceals Gender Discrimination in Venture Finance Ecosystems
报告人：杨道邦
主持人：王永健教授
点评专家：朱秀梅教授、安雯雯教授
时间：2026 年11月3日下午2:30
地点：管理学院A南406
报告内容摘要：
Does more precise screening make venture finance fairer to women founders? The prevailing view holds that it does, because screening on track records leaves less room for investors' stereotypes. We show the opposite: precise screening enlarges discrimination against women and hides it from view. The prevailing view presumes that track records are neutral measures of quality, but they are not. Records are built in entrepreneurial ecosystems through gendered networks, legitimacy and learning, so women's upstream disadvantage is written into the very signals investors rely on. The more precisely investors screen on these records, the more faithfully they pass that disadvantage on as an apparent difference in quality, without holding any bias. Because founders' true quality is unobservable in real data, we develop an agent-based model of multi-stage venture finance in which it is known, calibrated to 91,480 Chinese early-stage financing events. In the model, women founders of equal quality are less likely than men to obtain first-round funding, and this gap widens from 3.7 to 13.1 percentage points as screening becomes fully precise. Yet the outcome test, the standard method researchers use to detect discrimination, which asks whether funded women's ventures outperform funded men's, finds none. We call this difference between the discrimination that exists and the discrimination the test detects the detection gap. The gap originates in the records: remove their gender discount, and it disappears. Follow-on investors also fund on the same records, which holds back funded women's ventures and erases the performance advantage the test looks for; this reuse accounts for two-fifths of the gap. The ecosystem processes that build the records matter more for whether discrimination is visible than for how large it is: removing them from the model narrows the gap by 78 percent but reduces discrimination by 30 percent. Precise screening thus enlarges discrimination while removing it from view. Finding that funded women perform no better than funded men is therefore no proof of fair financing; fairness must be assessed by comparing who gets funded at the point of selection.
【个人简介】
杨道邦，广东工业大学管理学院管理科学与工程专业2023级博士研究生，师从晋琳琳教授，北卡罗来纳大学Belk商学院访问学者。研究领域为创业管理，主要涉及农村创业、创业减贫与女性创业。在导师指导下，已在Journal of Intellectual Capital、Current Psychology等SSCI期刊发表学术论文2篇；有2篇论文被2026年Academy of Management（AOM）年会接收，并受邀担任该年会创业分会场主持人。研究成果曾获第二十二届中国技术管理学术年会（MOT）优秀论文奖、第九届中国技术创新与创业年会优秀论文奖。担任Management Decision、Current Psychology等SSCI期刊匿名审稿人。
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主办单位：广东工业大学管理学院
承办单位：创新创业与战略管理系
学术型研究生教育中心
2026年10月30日
