@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18777,
            	author={Megalokonomou, Rigissa and Goncalves, Juliana Silva and Veldhuizen, Roel van},
            	title={Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice},
            	year={2026},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18777},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18777},
	abstract={We study the role of self-promotion and career advice in sustaining gender differences in labor market outcomes. We conduct a pre-registered experiment in which “advisers” advise  “workers” to attempt either a more or a less ambitious task. We find that women promote themselves less than men and, as a result, are 12 percentage points less likely to be advised to choose the more ambitious task. This gender gap in advice persists across both quantitative and qualitative self-assessments and is robust to variation in advisers' information sets — including when advisers observe workers' actual performance — but is eliminated and even reversed when advisers are informed of the gender gap in self-promotion.},
	keywords={advice;gender;self-promotion;randomized experiment},
            }