Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap

Francesco D'Acunto (dacuntof@bc.edu), Ulrike Malmendier (ulrike@berkeley.edu) and Michael Weber
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Francesco D'Acunto: Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Ulrike Malmendier: Department of Economics and Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

No 2020-11, Working Papers from Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics

Abstract: Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as ination, 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 in ation 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.

Keywords: Gender Gap; Expectations; Perceptions; Experiences; Exposure. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D14 D84 E31 E52 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2020
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