@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18441,
            	author={Koch, Alexander K. and Kragl, Jenny and Ming, Sijuan and Nafziger, Julia},
            	title={The Effects of AI Assistance on Self-Promotion},
            	year={2026},
	month={Mar},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18441},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18441},
	abstract={Persistent gender gaps in self-promotion contribute to unequal labor market outcomes. In this study, we investigate how AI-assisted writing tools shape self-promotion, and, as a secondary outcome, confidence and how these effects interact with gender. For this purpose, we conducted an online experiment in China in which participants wrote self-promotion texts, provided a numerical self-promotion score and stated their confidence about how they will perform in an upcoming math and logic test. We find suggestive evidence that AI assistance reduces numerical self-evaluations. Neither gender nor the interaction between gender and AI assistance is significantly related to self-promotion or confidence. We conduct a text analysis to investigate the mechanisms behind these results.},
	keywords={self-promotion;confidence;AI assistance;gender gaps},
            }