Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339056 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2025:11
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
We study the role of self-promotion and career advice in sustaining gender differences in labor market outcomes. We conduct an online experiment in which "advisers" advise "workers" to choose between a more ambitious and a less ambitious task based on the worker's subjective self-assessment. We find that women have lower selfassessments and receive less ambitious career advice as a result. We also show that these gender differences are similar for both quantitative and qualitative self-assessments, and that the gender difference in advice received can be mitigated by informing advisers of the worker's true performance or of the gender gap in self-promotion.
Subjects: 
Advice
Gender
Self-Promotion
Randomized Experiment
JEL: 
C91
D91
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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