IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/32929.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

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

Author

Listed:
  • Haoran He
  • David Neumark
  • Qian Weng

Abstract

We study gender discrimination in an online health care market. Statistical discrimination implies that the impact of gender on prices should decline, and the impact of reviews increase, as reviews accumulate. However, in our context this implication does not hold, because doctors choose how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new test for the implications of statistical discrimination based on this choice. We find evidence consistent with statistical discrimination against female doctors in male-dominated fields, and vice versa. For example, female doctors mask gender more strongly initially in male-dominated fields, and the gender gap in signaling declines as reviews accumulate.

Suggested Citation

  • Haoran He & David Neumark & Qian Weng, 2024. "Gender Reveals in the Labor Market: Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market," NBER Working Papers 32929, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32929
    Note: EH LS
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w32929.pdf
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text is generally limited to series subscribers, however if the top level domain of the client browser is in a developing country or transition economy free access is provided. More information about subscriptions and free access is available at http://www.nber.org/wwphelp.html. Free access is also available to older working papers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J40 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - General
    • J70 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - General

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32929. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/nberrus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.