The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion*

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B.
• 署名单位: Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjac003
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1345-1381
• 关键词: Risk-taking; stereotypes; COMPETITION; confidence; MARKET; field

摘要

We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000 school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance on a male-typed task relating to math and science, we find a large gender gap in self-evaluations. This gap arises when self-evaluations are provided to potential employers, and thus measure self-promotion, and when self-evaluations are not driven by incentives to promote. The gender gap in self-evaluations proves to be persistent and arises as early as the sixth grade. No gender gap arises if individuals are asked about their performance on a more female-typed task.