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The gender gap: Nature or nurture?

Klaus Desmet [1] interviewed by Tim Phillips [2], 07 January 2022

Are the differences between what men and women like decided at birth, or do we learn to prefer different things? Klaus Desmet tells Tim Phillips about new research that investigates global patterns in 45,397 Facebook interests.

Read more and download the free DP behind this podcast:
Cuevas Rumin, R, Cuevas Rumin, A, Desmet, K and Ortuño-Ortín, I. 2021. 'The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests [3]'. CEPR
 

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Topics:  Gender [9]

Tags:  gender [10], Gender preferences [11], Facebook [12], social role theory [13], systemic gender bias [14]

Source URL: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/gender-gap-nature-or-nurture

Links
[1] https://voxeu.org/user/219490
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
[3] https://cepr.online/gender-gap-preferences
[4] itpc://www.voxeu.org/rss.php?q=itunes_podcast
[5] https://voxeu.org/article/origin-gender-gap
[6] https://voxeu.org/article/aggregate-implications-barriers-female-entrepreneurship
[7] https://voxeu.org/article/economics-social-data
[8] https://voxeu.org/article/declining-son-preference-us
[9] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/gender
[10] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/163
[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/9884
[12] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/6884
[13] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/12774
[14] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/12775