Sexism, household decisions, and the gender wage gap

Ann Owen and Andrew Wei

Labour Economics, 2021, vol. 72, issue C

Abstract: We develop an index of local sexism for the United States using publicly available Google Trends data. We shed light on the correlates of local sexism and find that the most important factors that predict it are the economic outcomes of men. Finally, we show that online sexism is associated with higher levels of the residual gender wage gap, the wage gap after controlling for education, occupation, industry, and age. We find evidence for a direct association of sexism with the wage gap, consistent with labor market discrimination and an indirect association that works through household decisions which themselves are associated with wages.

Keywords: Gender wage gap; Sexism; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102062

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