The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests / Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuevas, Ángel.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Cuevas, Rubén.

Desmet, Klaus.

Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29451.

NBER working paper series no. w29451

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.

Summary:

This paper uses information on the frequency of 45,397 Facebook interests to study how the difference in preferences between men and women changes with a country's degree of gender equality. For preference dimensions that are systematically biased toward the same gender across the globe, differences between men and women are larger in more gender-equal countries. In contrast, for preference dimensions with a gender bias that varies across countries, the opposite holds. This finding takes an important step toward reconciling evolutionary psychology and social role theory as they relate to gender.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2021.