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And a shout out to my formidable co-authors Lorena Alcázar, @franquegrimard.bsky.social, Andrea Ulloa, Tamara Pressman

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I'll be presenting this paper on Thursday Nov 20 at 10:30 #LACEA2025 in Recife, in case you are interested.

Link to paper: bit.ly/43Cso1R

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➡️ In summary, in this working paper, we find evidence of significant norms misperceptions, that these misperceptions are stronger among women when the reference group is male, and that gender norms influence the division of household labour.

However, we find that men are more likely to report being responsible for routine tasks if they believe their male peers are more progressive – and not whether they themselves hold progressive beliefs.

Indeed, domestic chores are highly gendered, with women bearing the majority of the responsibility for routine chores such as cleaning, cooking, and childcare. Women’s time allocated to these chores is influenced by their own beliefs rather than common beliefs.

While gender norms beliefs do not appear to influence how men allocate their time between market and domestic work, their beliefs do influence who assumes responsibility for different domestic tasks within the household.

➡️ Second, we find that gender norms influence time allocation, with more progressive women spending less time in domestic chores and more time in leisure, but have little relationship with labour force participation at the intensive and extensive margins.

Most strikingly, while both men and women believe other women are more conservative than women actually are, women greatly misperceive men’s beliefs:

We found some interesting results.

➡️ First, male and female participants in our study do not differ much in their own beliefs about gender norms, and more educated individuals tend to have more progressive beliefs. However, both men and women tend to overstate how conservative others are.

1️⃣ What do women and men believe about social norms and do these beliefs vary across reference groups?

2️⃣ Do they form accurate beliefs about what others’ think about gender norms?

3️⃣ Do these beliefs correlate with the division of labour within the household?

We elicited individual and common beliefs about gender norms in three domains (labour supply, leisure and domestic work) using a lab-in-the-field experiment with 500 participants from low-income neighbourhoods in Lima, Peru, to try to answer three questions.

Meanwhile, some big departures from MIT announced today

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