講座題目：Gender Reveals in the Labor Market: Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market
主講專家：何浩然教授
主持人：石智雷 教授
講座時間：5月31日上午10:00-11:30
講座地點：文泉樓南206會議室
講座摘要：
A recent approach to testing for customer statistical discrimination involves studying price gaps between sellers from different groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider a similar setting, testing for statistical discrimination against female doctors in an online health care market. But in this setting this kind of analysis does not provide evidence on statistical discrimination because doctors have a choice about how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new approach to identifying statistical discrimination using doctors’ choices about signaling their gender. We find evidence of statistical discrimination against female doctors in male-dominated fields, and against male doctors in female-dominated fields. In particular, female doctors mask gender more strongly initially in male-dominated fields, and male doctors do the same in female-dominated fields. But in both female- and male-dominated fields the gender gap in signaling decreases with number of customer reviews of doctors. More generally, our evidence indicates how, in some markets, sellers may be able to reduce statistical discrimination by masking their group membership.
專家簡介：
何浩然，瑞典哥德堡大學經濟學博士，北京師範大學京師特聘教授，國家級青年人才項目入選者，國家一級運動員。主要研究領域為行為經濟學、實驗經濟學、勞動力市場、親社會行為、團隊決策、公共政策評估。近年來在Economic Journal、Journal of Labor Economics、Experimental Economics、Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization、Social Choice and Welfare、Journal of Economic Psychology、Economics Letters、China Economic Review、《管理世界》、《經濟學（季刊）》、《世界經濟》等期刊上發表多篇論文。
