Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Statistical and taste-based discrimination against (lonely) men in online markets

New working paper documents discrimination against men:
We find that women sell baseball cards for a higher price and greater profit on eBay compared to men.

Interestingly, the paper finds both statistical and taste-based discrimination:
...the reason for a higher price appears to be at least partially based on statistical discrimination, with respondents believing that female sellers were more likely to handle the card carefully and promptly mail it after purchase and less likely to present problems in completing the transaction. Part of the discrimination may also be taste–based. In the eBay experiment, women obtained higher prices and profits even for cards that had been professionally graded, where the quality of the card should not have been in doubt. And MTurk respondents were also more likely to want to meet the female sellers in person and believed they were attractive.

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