听她说：家庭内部信息扩散中的性别差异

中文摘要

我们借助一项针对德国家庭代表性样本的信息提供实验，研究经济信息如何在家庭内部扩散。随机抽取的部分家庭成员收到了关于其家庭在收入分布中所处位置的信息。当信息被直接提供时，个体在信念更新上不存在性别差异。然而，我们在信息于家庭内部扩散的过程中观察到显著的性别差异。具体而言，当只有丈夫收到信息时，这会影响妻子的信念；但当只有妻子收到信息时，却不会影响丈夫的信念。

Abstract

We study how economic information diffuses within the household, leveraging an information-provision experiment with a representative sample of households from Germany. A random sample of household members received information about their household’s position in the income distribution. When provided with information directly, there are no gender differences in how individuals update their beliefs. However, we observe significant gender disparities in the diffusion of information within the household. Specifically, when only the husband receives the information, it influences the wife’s beliefs; however, when only the wife receives the information, it does not affect the husband’s beliefs.