Confidence in Experts: The Role of Gender
An Experimental Economics Approach
Research Project
Do the stereotypes about the lesser capacity of women for the sciences, which are in some countries reinforced by women getting lower test scores in math, also apply to experts (those at the very top of their profession)?
Imagine, for example, that female doctors were deemed less able to understand and act on medical research than their male counterparts. This could go some way to explaining some parents’ reluctance to vaccinate their children on the advice of their doctor.
Starting from such a concept, we conduct laboratory research to compare gender differences in the degree of confidence people have in experts. We are interested in both confidence in expert recommendations and to the choice of a male or female expert when looking for recommendations.
Researchers
Marie-Pierre Dargnies’ research uses laboratory experiments to investigate questions of behavioral economics and finance. Before coming to Université Dauphine-PSL, she defended her doctoral thesis, “Gender and Appetite for Competition: An Experimental Approach” at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and PSE in November 2009. She then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at WZB in Berlin.MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Self-confidence and unraveling in matching markets, with Rustamdjan Hakimov and Dorothea Kübler, (2019, Management Science)Gender Differences in Reaction to Feedback and Willingness to Compete, with Noémi Berlin, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (October 2016), Volume 130, pp. 320-336.