This study demonstrates systematic bias against women in public perceptions of the fairness of wages. In nationally representative survey experiments across more than 70,000 individual vignettes posed to 4,500 respondents in three Central Asian countries, respondents were 13 percent more likely to say wages were “too high” when the randomly assigned person described in the vignette (subject) was a woman, and 34 percent more likely to say they were...
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2023/08/21
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS10548
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2023/08/21
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Preferences for Wage Discrimination against Women
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Seitz,William Hutchins.
Preferences for Wage Discrimination against Women (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10548 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099516508212338351