Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap / Francesco D'Acunto, Ulrike Malmendier, Michael Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Acunto, Francesco.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Malmendier, Ulrike.

Weber, Michael (Professor of finance)

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26837.

NBER working paper series no. w26837

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.

Summary:

Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in expectations. Using unique data on the contributions of men and women to household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic expectations and discuss how it might affect economic choices.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2020.