What is good for the goose is good for the gander?

Autor:	Andrea Gallice, Flavia Coda Moscarola, Cecilia Boggio
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Financial inclusion Finance Economics and Econometrics Goto business.industry 05 social sciences Financial market 050301 education Attention span Education Framing (social sciences) Financial information 0502 economics and business Gender gap 050207 economics Psychology business 0503 education
Zdroj:	Economics of Education Review. 75:101952
ISSN:	0272-7757
DOI:	10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.101952
Popis:	We conduct a field experiment with elementary school children to go to the roots of the gender gap in financial participation and decision-making. We study the combined effects of two treatments designed to boost the attention span of participants in completing a basic financial task. We find that the use of gender-specific conceptual frames (competitiveness vs. cooperation) in the description of the task: a) raises girls’ interest and thus increases their number of coherent answers; b) makes the transmission of information on the utility of savings more effective in boosting the coherence of girls’ answers; c) does not increase girls’ level of impatience. This evidence supports our underlying hypothesis that the use of more gender-specific conceptual frames in presenting financial information to women may play a role in narrowing the gender gap in financial market participation and decision-making.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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