Taste-Based Gender Favouritism in High-Stake Decisions: Evidence from the Price is Right

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Atanasov, Pavel; Dana, Jason D.; Teeselink, Bouke Klein
• 署名单位: IE University; Yale University; University of London; King's College London
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead087
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 856-883
• 关键词: natural experiment; racial bias; DISCRIMINATION; game; DYNAMICS; BEHAVIOR; gap; COOPERATION; returns; beliefs

摘要

Gender discrimination is present across various fields, but identifying the underlying mechanism is challenging. We demonstrate own-gender favouritism in a field setting that allows for clean identification of tastes versus beliefs: the One Bid game on the TV show The Price Is Right. Players must guess an item's value without exceeding it, leaving the last bidder with a dominant 'cutoff' strategy of overbidding another player by ${\$}$1. We show that last bidders are significantly more likely to cut off opposite-gender opponents. This behaviour is explained by own-gender favouritism rather than beliefs that cutting off opposite-gender opponents is more profitable.