 An experimental analysis of gender discrimination in a credence goods marketMaxime Perodaud, Nobuyuki Hanaki and Takashi Yamada Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2022, vol. 98, issue C Abstract: Field economic interactions always involve mutual knowledge about the distinctive personal characteristics of economic players. In particular, anecdotal evidence that female consumers being more likely defrauded in markets for car repair motivates the present study. In a 2×4 design, we experimentally investigated how (i) displaying information about the counterpart’s gender and (ii) framing instructions that emphasize a specific car repair market context affect outcomes in markets for credence goods. A two-player game in four steps reproduced the conditions under which credence goods are provided. Overall, our analysis suggests that both market context and gender are of fundamental importance to explain the under-provision dimension of fraud in such markets. Keywords: Credence goods; Discrimination; Fraud (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:soceco:v:98:y:2022:i:c:s2214804322000283 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2022.101853 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics) is currently edited by Pablo Brañas Garza More articles in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics) from Elsevier |
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