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Gender Discrimination and Social Identity: Evidence from Urban Pakistan

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: This paper uses economic experiments to investigate how gender discrimination depends on the social identities of interacting parties. We randomly matched students pursuing bachelor-equivalent degrees in different institution types that represent distinct identities within Pakistani society. Our main finding is that gender discrimination is not uniform and varies as a function of the social identity of the matched individuals. While men of higher socioeconomic status (SES) exhibit no gender discrimination, men of lower SES and higher religiosity discriminate against women but only women with lower SES who are closest to them in social distance. This discrimination is largely taste based.

Source: Economic Development and Cultural Change

DOI: 10.1086/700555

Authors: Adeline Delavande, Basit Zafar

Institutions: University of Technology Sydney, NOVA School of Business and Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, Arizona State University

Language: English

Topic: Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: University of Essex, Economic and Social Research Council