Gendered prices
We provide evidence that culture is a source of pricing bias. In a sample of 1.9 million auction transactions in 49 countries, paintings by female artists sell at an unconditional discount of 42.1%. The gender discount increases with measures of country-level gender inequality—even in art...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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