Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Lund University, Department of Economics
No 2025:11: Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice
Rigissa Megalokonomou (), Juliana Silva-Goncalves () and Roel van Veldhuizen ()
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Rigissa Megalokonomou: Department of Economics, Monash University, Postal: Caulfield Campus, , Melbourne, , Australia
Juliana Silva-Goncalves: ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, The University of Sydney, Postal: Sydney, , Australia
Roel van Veldhuizen: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: School of Economics and Management, Box 7080, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Abstract: We study the role of self-promotion and career advice in sustaining gender differences in labor market outcomes. We conduct an online experiment in which “advisers” advise “workers” to choose between a more ambitious and a less ambitious task based on the worker’s subjective self-assessment. We find that women have lower self-assessments and receive less ambitious career advice as a result. We also show that these gender differences are similar for both quantitative and qualitative self-assessments, and that the gender difference in advice received can be mitigated by informing advisers of the worker’s true performance or of the gender gap in self-promotion.
Keywords: Advice; Gender; Self-Promotion; Randomized Experiment
Language: English
99 pages, December 12, 2025
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