You are invited to join the weekly Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 29 April 2026, from 13.15 to 14.45 pm. The seminar will be held in room LG 4.154. Müge Süer (IWH Halle) will be talking about “Economic Behavior and Gender Typicality: The Predictive Power of Femininity and Masculinity” (joint with S. Piasenti).
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Are gender gaps in economic behavior and labor market outcomes associated with biological sex, or with gendertypical traits? Using an online U.S. sample and machine learning, we develop and validate a gender typicality measure capturing masculinity and femininity as separate dimensions. We show that confidence, competitiveness, and risk-taking are associated with masculinity, whereas altruism and equality and efficiency concerns are associated with femininity. Gender typicality also predicts labor market outcomes: masculinity is associated with higher inome, managerial positions, performance-based pay, and willingness to negotiate. By leveraging latent heterogeneity, our framework offers a new empirical lens for analyzing gender differences.