Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 137 No. 3 2022
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
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Abstract
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.
- DOI
- 10.1093/qje/qjac003
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1345-1381
- Language
- en
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref