Taste-Based Gender Favouritism in High-Stake Decisions: Evidence from The Price is Right
中文摘要
性别歧视存在于多个领域,但识别其内在机制颇具挑战性。我们在一个能够清晰识别偏好与信念的实地情境中证明了同性别偏袒:电视节目《价格竞猜》中的“One Bid”竞猜环节。玩家必须在不超出物品价值的前提下猜出其价值,这使得最后一位出价者拥有一种占优的“截断”策略,即以比另一位玩家高出1美元的方式出价。我们表明,最后出价者显著更可能截断异性对手。这一行为可由同性别偏袒而非“截断异性对手更有利可图”的信念来解释。
Abstract
Gender discrimination is present across various fields, but identifying the underlying mechanism is challenging. We demonstrate own-gender favouritism in a field setting that allows for clean identification of tastes versus beliefs: the One Bid game on the TV show The Price Is Right. Players must guess an item’s value without exceeding it, leaving the last bidder with a dominant ‘cutoff’ strategy of overbidding another player by ${\$}$1. We show that last bidders are significantly more likely to cut off opposite-gender opponents. This behaviour is explained by own-gender favouritism rather than beliefs that cutting off opposite-gender opponents is more profitable.