The gender gap in preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook interests

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107165

Ángel Cuevas , Rubén Cuevas , Klaus Desmet , Ignacio Ortuño Ortín

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Abstract

This paper uses information on the frequency of 45,397 Facebook interests to study how the difference in revealed preferences between men and women changes with a country’s degree of gender equality. For preference dimensions that are systematically biased toward the same gender across the globe, differences between men and women are larger in more gender-equal countries. In contrast, for preference dimensions with a gender bias that varies across countries, the opposite holds. The so-called gender-equality paradox is therefore limited to preferences that display the same systematic gender bias across societies.

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偏好的性别差异：来自45397个Facebook兴趣的证据

本文利用45397个Facebook兴趣的频率信息，来研究男女偏好的差异是如何随着一个国家性别平等程度的变化而变化的。对于全球范围内系统性地偏向同性的偏好维度，在性别更平等的国家，男女之间的差异更大。相比之下，对于不同国家的性别偏见的偏好维度，情况正好相反。因此，所谓的性别平等悖论仅限于在社会中表现出相同的系统性性别偏见的偏好。

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.