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Gender Reveals in the Labor Market: Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market / Haoran He, David Neumark, Qian Weng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- He, Haoran.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w32929.
- NBER working paper series no. w32929
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2024.
- Summary:
- We study gender discrimination in an online health care market. Statistical discrimination implies that the impact of gender on prices should decline, and the impact of reviews increase, as reviews accumulate. However, in our context this implication does not hold, because doctors choose how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new test for the implications of statistical discrimination based on this choice. We find evidence consistent with statistical discrimination against female doctors in male-dominated fields, and vice versa. For example, female doctors mask gender more strongly initially in male-dominated fields, and the gender gap in signaling declines as reviews accumulate.
- Notes:
- September 2024.
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