%0 Report
        %A Koch, Alexander K.
%A Kragl, Jenny
%A Ming, Sijuan
%A Nafziger, Julia
        %T The Effects of AI Assistance on Self-Promotion
        %D 2026
        %8 2026 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18441
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18441
        %X 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.
        %K self-promotion
%K confidence
%K AI assistance
%K gender gaps