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Subjective Judgment and Gender Bias in Advice: Evidence from the Laboratory

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Better understanding and reducing gender gaps in the labor market remains an important policy goal. We study the role of advice in sustaining these gender gaps using a laboratory experiment. In the experiment, "advisers" advise "workers" to choose between a more ambitious and a less ambitious task based on the worker's subjective self-assessment. We expected female workers to be less confident and advisers to hold gender stereotypes, leading to a gender bias in advice. However, we find no evidence that women are less confident or that advice is gender-biased. Our results contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms driving gender differences in the labor market. They also call for caution when making general interpretations of research findings pointing to a gender bias in specific settings.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2020:27

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
Advice
Subjective judgment
Gender bias

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Silva Goncalves, Juliana
van Veldhuizen, Roel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
(wo)
Lund
(wann)
2020

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Silva Goncalves, Juliana
  • van Veldhuizen, Roel
  • Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2020

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