Listen to Her: Gender Differences in Information Diffusion within the Household
We study how economic information diffuses within the household, leveraging an information-provision experiment with a representative sample of households from Germany. A random sample of household members received information on their household’s position in the income distribution. When provided with information directly, there are no gender differences in how individuals update their beliefs. However, we find significant gender differences in how the information diffuses within the household. When only the husband received information, it also impacted the wife’s beliefs, but when only the wife received it, the husband’s beliefs remained unchanged.
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