Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260319 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2020:27
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Advice
Subjective judgment
Gender bias
JEL: 
C91
D91
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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