The Gender Concealment Gap

Christine L. Exley, Raymond Fisman, Judd B. Kessler, Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma and Basit Zafar

No 32350, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We identify and explore a gender concealment gap when individuals have the opportunity to hide information about their performance from others. In data from two universities that allowed students to replace letter grades with “credit” on their transcripts, we find that men are substantially more likely than women to conceal grades that will harm their GPAs. The gender concealment gap persists across student traits and course features and generates inequity: the option to conceal leads to GPA gains that are 50% larger for men than for women. University data and complementary experimental evidence suggests that women may conceal less because they expect others will make worse inferences about their concealed grades.

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Date: 2024-04
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