Dear All,

Please find below the invitation to the IN PERSON CEU Economic Seminar Series (CESS) presentation.

On Tuesday, Roberto Weber (U of Zurich) will talk about: ‘Continuous Gender Identity and Economic Decision Making’ (with Anne Ardila Brenøe, Lea Heursen, and Eva Ranehill)

Time and venue: October 03, Tuesday, 11.15am – 12.30pm, at Quellenstrasse 51 (Vienna), QS B-505.

ABSTRACT:

Economic research on gender gaps in preferences and economic outcomes has identified gaps with respect to sex—a binary classification as either a “man” or “woman.” We investigate the value of incorporating a continuous measure of self-reported gender identity into economics by exploring whether gender identity correlates with variation in economic decisions and outcomes beyond the explanatory power of binary sex. We validate a novel and simple measure of continuous gender identity (CGI) that correlates with measures used in gender research outside economics. We employ this validated measure in five datasets (N=8,213) measuring several dimensions of economic preferences and educational and labor market outcomes. Our results yield mixed evidence that CGI correlates with economic behaviors and outcomes when accounting for binary sex: CGI has little relationship with incentivized preference measures, but is correlated with a number of unincentivized preference measures and with educational choices and labor market outcomes that are stereotypically associated with females. Our results suggest that incorporating self-reported measures of gender identity may have some value for understanding economic behaviors and for targeting policy.

Please sign up for the seminar at this link till 12pm, the day before the seminar!

Best Regards:

Judit

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Judit Lafferthon
Executive Assistant of the HoD
Department of Economics and Business
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