【经济中南】“文澜高端论坛系列活动”第52期预告 | 何浩然教授讲座

发布者:陈思琳发布时间:2024-05-28浏览次数:56

讲座题目:Gender Reveals in the Labor Market: Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market

主讲专家:何浩然教授

主持人:石智雷 教授

讲座时间:531上午10:00-11:30

讲座地点:文泉楼南206会议室

讲座摘要:

 A recent approach to testing for customer statistical discrimination involves studying price gaps between sellers from different groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider a similar setting, testing for statistical discrimination against female doctors in an online health care market. But in this setting this kind of analysis does not provide evidence on statistical discrimination because doctors have a choice about how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new approach to identifying statistical discrimination using doctors’ choices about signaling their gender. We find evidence of statistical discrimination against female doctors in male-dominated fields, and against male doctors in female-dominated fields. In particular, female doctors mask gender more strongly initially in male-dominated fields, and male doctors do the same in female-dominated fields. But in both female- and male-dominated fields the gender gap in signaling decreases with number of customer reviews of doctors. More generally, our evidence indicates how, in some markets, sellers may be able to reduce statistical discrimination by masking their group membership.

专家简介:

何浩然,瑞典哥德堡大学经济学博士,北京范大学京师特聘教授,国家级青年人才项目入选者,国家一级运动员。主要研究为经济学、实验经济学、劳动力市亲社会行为、团队决策、公共政策估。近年来在Economic JournalJournal of Labor EconomicsExperimental EconomicsJournal of Economic Behavior & OrganizationSocial Choice and WelfareJournal of Economic PsychologyEconomics LettersChina Economic Review《管理世界》、《经济学(季刊)》、《世界经济》等期刊上表多篇文。