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HOLDING FAST: THE PERSISTENCE AND DOMINANCE OF GENDER STEREOTYPES
Author(s) -
GROSSMAN PHILIP J.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2012.00479.x
Subject(s) - persistence (discontinuity) , stereotype (uml) , dominance (genetics) , psychology , social psychology , preference , order (exchange) , economics , econometrics , microeconomics , biochemistry , chemistry , geotechnical engineering , finance , engineering , gene
This paper investigates the persistence of gender stereotyping in the forecasting of risk attitudes. Subjects predict the gamble choice of target subjects in one of two treatments. First, based only on visual clues and then based on visual clues plus two responses by the target from a risk‐preference survey. Second in reverse order: first, based only on the two responses, then on the two responses plus visual clues. In isolation the gender stereotype and survey responses both inform predictions about others' risk attitudes. In conjunction with one another, however, the stereotype persists and dominates the survey response information . ( JEL C91, D8, J16)