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

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  • Ángel Cuevas
  • Rubén Cuevas
  • Klaus Desmet
  • Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

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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.

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  • Ángel Cuevas & Rubén Cuevas & Klaus Desmet & Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, 2021. "The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests," NBER Working Papers 29451, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29451
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    JEL classification:

    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics

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