The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests

Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet and Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

No 29451, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper uses information on the frequency of 45,397 Facebook interests to study how the difference in preferences between men and women changes with a country's degree of gender equality. For preference dimensions that are systematically biased toward the same gender across the globe, differences between men and women are larger in more gender-equal countries. In contrast, for preference dimensions with a gender bias that varies across countries, the opposite holds. This finding takes an important step toward reconciling evolutionary psychology and social role theory as they relate to gender.

JEL-codes: D01 D10 D90 D91 J16 O57 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11
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