Gender Stereotypes and Homophily in Team Formation
Antonio Cabrales,
Lorenzo Ductor,
Ericka Rascon-Ramirez and
Ismael Rodriguez-Lara
No DTE 648, Working Papers from CIDE, División de Economía
Abstract:
Women often find themselves in teams that hinder their productivity and earnings. We analyze the role of homophily and gender stereotypes in preferences for team formation and examine the effect of information on changing these preferences. We find that women are expected to perform better in female-type tasks (such as text and emotion-recognition). However, people prefer forming teams with their same gender. Our findings suggest that information can mitigate -but it does not eliminate- the influence of homophily on team formation.
Keywords: gender differences; expectations; collaboration; network formation; team production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D03 D60 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2025-03
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