The next working group meeting on "Transport, Energy and Climate Economics" will take on Wednesday, 28 January from 12:15pm to 1:30pm.
Speaker: Morgane Laouenan - CNRS Researcher at the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne and the Co-Director of the Research Group “Discrimination and Social Inequalities” at LIEPP Sciences-Po.
Paper: Safety first: gender differences in screening on an online platform
Abstract: We investigate gender differences in economic outcomes on the largest carpooling platform in Europe, combining correspondence studies, scraped platform data and survey experiments. We find that although female drivers are strongly preferred by passengers, they do not earn higher revenues. We reconcile this paradox by showing that female drivers screen out passengers more than men do, driven by differences in perceived risk and tolerance for potentially unsafe passengers.
Relevant information :
- Our sessions are held online, here the Teams link for this session.
- The Transport, Energy, and Climate Economics Working Group (TrEnCE) is organized by the Governance & Regulation Chair at the University Paris Dauphine-PSL. Usually, the working group usually organizes a weekly presentation every Wednesday afternoon (12:15-1.30pm CET) within topics under the umbrella fields of transport, climate, environment and energy economics.
- To subscribe to our mailing list or to volunteer as a future presenter, you can write to the coordinator, Shahmeer Mohsin : shahmeer.mohsin@dauphine.psl.eu.
