Beliefs about Gender

By P. Bordalo, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, N. Gennaioli, A. Shleifer. The American Economic Review, 2019

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We conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. The data reveal two patterns. First, men’s and women’s beliefs about both oneself and others exceed observed ability on average, particularly in difficult tasks. Second, overestimation of ability by both men and women varies across categories. To understand these patterns, we develop a model that separates gender stereotypes from misestimation of ability related to the difficulty of the task. We find that stereotypes contribute to gender gaps in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. (JEL C92, D83, D91, J16)

Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Misperceptions About Others (2021, unknown): “This requires studies to elicit both in-group and out-group perceptions, and the analyses in this section are thus limited to the following papers: Ahler and Sood (2018); Ahler (2014); Cullen and Perez-Truglia (2018); Mildenberger and Tingley (2019); Levendusky and Malhotra (2016); Bordalo et al. (2”
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion (2019, background): “Bordalo et al. (2019) defines “male-typed” and “female-typed” settings. The paper considers: Arts and Literature, Business, Cars, Cooking, Disney Movies, Emotion Recognition, Kardashians, Mathematics, Rock and Roll, Sports and Games, Verbal Skills, and Videogames. Men believe they perform better tha”
Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias* (2019, background): “The gender stereotypical belief that women are worse than men in scientific fields is pervasive and deeply-held in most societies and by most individuals, including parents and teachers (Tiedemann, 2000; Reuben et al., 2014; Bordalo et al., 2016).”
Diagnostic Expectations and Stock Returns (2019, background): “…has been used to shed light on fallacies in probabilistic judgments (Gennaioli and Shleifer (2010), social stereotypes (Bordalo et al. (2016)), beliefs about gender (Bordalo et al. (2019)), credit cycles (Bordalo, Gennaioli, and Shleifer (2018)), and macroeconomic forecasts (Bordalo et al. (2018)).”
Exposure to Daily Price Changes and Inflation Expectations (2019, unknown): “, see Bordalo et al. (2016); D’Acunto (2018a); D’Acunto (2018b); Frydman and Mormann (2018); Landier et al.”