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Do Male and Female Students Use Networks Differently?

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  • Yana Gallen
  • Melanie Wasserman

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Gender differences in professional networks have been shown to contribute to men and women's disparate labor market outcomes. This gap could be due to differences in network access, differences in network usage, or both. Using novel administrative data from a student-alumni professional networking website, we study gender differences in student network usage, holding network access fixed. Focusing on messages sent by students to alumni, we document that male and female students network similarly, in terms of both the number of messages sent and the specific questions asked. Furthermore, there are only small gender differences in question tone.

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  • Yana Gallen & Melanie Wasserman, 2021. "Do Male and Female Students Use Networks Differently?," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 111, pages 154-158, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:111:y:2021:p:154-58
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20211023
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    1. Yana Gallen & Melanie Wasserman, 2021. "Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice," Working Papers 2021-025, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    2. Yulia Evsyukova & Felix Rusche & Wladislaw Mill, 2023. "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2023_482, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
    3. Gallen, Yana & Wasserman, Melanie, 2023. "Does information affect homophily?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 222(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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