TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Koch, Alexander K.
AU  - Kragl, Jenny
AU  - Ming, Sijuan
AU  - Nafziger, Julia
        TI  - The Effects of AI Assistance on Self-Promotion
        PY  - 2026/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18441
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18441
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - self-promotion
KW  - confidence
KW  - AI assistance
KW  - gender gaps
        ER  -