How many cents on the dollar? Women and men in product markets.

ABSTRACT: Gender inequality in contemporary U.S. society is a well-documented, widespread phenomenon. However, little is known about gender disparities in product markets. This study is the first to use actual market data to study the behavior of women and men as sellers and buyers and differences in market outcomes. We analyze a unique and large data set containing all eBay auction transactions of most popular products by private sellers between the years 2009 and 2012. Women sellers received a smaller number of bids and lower final prices than did equally qualified men sellers of the exact same product. On average, women sellers received about 80 cents for every dollar a man received when selling the identical new product and 97 cents when selling the same used product. These findings held even af

SUBMITTER: Kricheli-Katz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4788474 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature