Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia

Bursztyn, Leonardo; González, Alessandra L.; Yanagizawa-Drott, David

doi:10.1257/aer.20180975

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“…15 9 Ajayi, et al, forthcoming;Appadurai, 2004;Bernhardt et al, 2018;Field et al, 2019;Genicot and Ray, 2017;Haushofer and Fehr, 2014;Jayachandran, 2020;Macours and Vakis, 2014;Mullainathan andShafir, 2013. 10 Ashraf et al, 2020;Baranov et al, 2019;Bursztyn et al, 2020;Ball, 2010. 11 Bernard et al, 2015;Bernard et al, 2019;La Ferrara, 2016;Orkin et al, 2020;Paluck and Ball, 2010;Riley, 2017.…”

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Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-Faceted Social Protection Program in Niger

Bossuroy¹,

Goldstein²,

Karlan³

et al. 2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-Faceted Social Protection Program in Niger

Bossuroy¹,

Goldstein²,

Karlan³

et al. 2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…An example is that of racial segregation in the USA (O'Gorman, 1975). Recently, Bursztyn et al (2020) show how correcting these beliefs can lead to important changes in behavior. 2 We return to these issues when we discuss our results in Section 5.…”

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Personal Norms — and Not Only Social Norms — Shape Economic Behavior

Bašić

Verrina

2020

SSRN Journal

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While social norms have received great attention within economics, little is known about the role of personal norms. We propose a simple utility framework -which assumes that people care about monetary payoff, social norms, and personal norms -and design a novel two-part experiment to investigate the predictive value of personal norms across four economic games. We show that personal norms -together with social norms and monetary payoff -are highly predictive of individuals' behavior. Moreover, they are: i) inherently distinct from social norms across a series of economic contexts, ii) robust to an exogenous increase in social image concerns, which increases the predictive value of social norms, but does not weaken that of personal norms, and iii) complementary to social norms in predicting behavior, as a model with both personal and social norms outperforms a model with only one of the two norms. Taken together, our results support personal norms as a key driver of economic behavior, relevant in a wide array of economic settings.

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“…For instance, now, women can pursue professions and jobs before forbidden, possess greater freedom of movement and self-determination, and can even assume leadership and political positions. However, working outside the house is still a challenge for many women, thereby keeping women's employment rates noticeably low [53].…”

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What Lies beneath Sustainable Education? Predicting and Tackling Gender Differences in STEM Academic Success

Pilotti

2021

Sustainability

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In many societies across the globe, females are still underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM fields), although they are reported to have higher grades in high school and college than males. The present study was guided by the assumption that the sustainability of higher education critically rests on the academic success of both male and female students under conditions of equitable educational options, practices, and contents. It first assessed the persistence of familiar patterns of gender bias (e.g., do competencies at enrollment, serving as academic precursors, and academic performance favor females?) in college students of a society in transition from a gender-segregated workforce with marked gender inequalities to one whose aims at integrating into the global economy demand that women pursue once forbidden careers thought to be the exclusive domain of men. It then examined how simple indices of academic readiness, as well as preferences for fields fitting traditional gender roles, could predict attainment of key competencies and motivation to graduate (as measured by the average number of credits completed per year) in college. As expected, females had a higher high school GPA. Once in college, they were underrepresented in a major that fitted traditional gender roles (interior design) and over-represented in one that did not fit (business). Female students’ performance and motivation to graduate did not differ between the male-suited major of business and the female-suited major of interior design. Male students’ performance and motivation to graduate were higher in engineering than in business, albeit both majors were gender-role consistent. Although high school GPA and English proficiency scores predicted performance and motivation for all, preference for engineering over business also predicted males’ performance and motivation. These findings offered a more complex picture of patterns of gender bias, thereby inspiring the implementation of targeted educational interventions to improve females’ motivation for and enrollment in STEM fields, nowadays increasingly available to them, as well as to enhance males’ academic success in non-STEM fields such as business.

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Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia

Cited by 384 publications

References 35 publications

Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-Faceted Social Protection Program in Niger

Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-Faceted Social Protection Program in Niger

Personal Norms — and Not Only Social Norms — Shape Economic Behavior

What Lies beneath Sustainable Education? Predicting and Tackling Gender Differences in STEM Academic Success

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