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Mike ils sont's avatar

Uber study (pay gap) between men and women (more than a million drivers included), where men work longer hours, drive faster, cover more dangerous areas, work more days than women, and therefore receive higher wages.

https://codyfcook.github.io/papers/uberpaygap.pdf

Psychological study: The effect of personality traits on the average per capita income / the difference in income between the sexes is related to neuroticism / the difference in income between the sexes is related to narcissism

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886917305962?via%3Dihub

60% of the women did not (finally) negotiate with employers about the salary and preferred to resign over that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/women-more-likely-to-change-jobs-to-get-pay-increase.html

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There is a raw gender pay gap of course. I won’t go into reasons for why it exists but suffice to say it’s an empirical reality that women (on average) earn less than men.

I was curious as to whether there is a gender *consumption* gap, namely whether women spend less than men. Most people live in mixed-sex households and it’s possible that spending is not as much in favour of men than income is. As well as that, consumption is a better indicator of welfare than income is. Granted this is not a simple question to answer as much household consumption is shared and you need to make all sorts of imputations and assumptions.

But I was surprised to find that this literature barely exists. There are tens of thousands of phd economists doing research globally, and dozens of pretty high-quality national spending surveys.

Yet almost none of them are either interested enough or brave enough to see whether men spend more than women.

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