Gender Discrimination and Social Identity

Evidence from Urban Pakistan

Bibliographic Data

ID4832863
AuthorsAdeline Delavande (0000-0001-8691-6359, University of Technology Sydney), Basit Zafar (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Year2019
Volume68
Issue1
Pages1-40
Publication date2019-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/700555
OpenAlexW2182501184
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited62

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

Bachelor · Demographic economics · Economics · Gender discrimination · Identity (music) · Institution · Political science · Population · Religiosity · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Taste · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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