TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Nillesen, Eleonora
AU  - Grimm, Michael
AU  - Goedhuys, Micheline
AU  - Reitmann, Ann-Kristin
AU  - Meysonnat, Aline
        TI  - On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia
        PY  - 2019/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12471
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12471
        AB  - We use an implicit association test (IAT) to measure implicit gender attitudes and examine the malleability of these attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative respond to a randomized video treatment by reducing their implicit gender bias. Also, female interviewers invite more conservative responses to the IAT, especially among the male subsample. Perceived religiosity of the interviewer affects self-reported gender attitudes, but not IAT measures, suggesting social desirability may be at work. We discuss the implications of our findings for the use of implicit measures in development research. 
        KW  - interviewer effects
KW  - implicit association test
KW  - Middle East and North Africa
KW  - women empowerment
        ER  -