Influence of previous decision, evaluator leniency and candidate GPA (a) Admission process and (b) Hiring process Notes: Regressions only include evaluators who have conducted at least five interviews in the past. Leniency describes the share of yes votes given to candidates in past interview sequences. Dashed lines show 95% confidence intervals. Standard errors are clustered at the workshop/candidate pool level (N = 312/N = 63)