In this talk, Dr. Memon discussed his research which, posits that gender discrimination in the modern world has become subtle and implicit - colleagues discriminate against female colleagues by ignoring their input. His research collects evidence from a novel real effort task that we conduct with university students in Pakistan and the United Kingdom. Participants respond to a series of difficult trivia questions, first independently and subsequently, with advice from a fellow subject and have an opportunity to revise their answer. In the control, subjects receive only a piece of advice from a randomly selected advisor. Treatments vary information on gender and competence of matched advisors. Payoffs are determined by a linear scoring rule based on proximity to the correct answer. He finds conditional evidence that men in both countries and women in the U.K reduce listening to women once gender is revealed. Men in Pakistan reduce advice uptake in Mathematical questions while men and women in the U.K reduce uptake in questions related to literature, language and culture. On provision of information on female advisors' competence, men in both countries increase advice uptake from women in Mathematics and Language but women in the United Kingdom remain unaffected.  

Dr Rashid Memon is an Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research. Rashid's research focuses primarily on the implications of social and political identity for economic outcomes. He also has a long-standing interest in internal and international migration (in)from South Asia, and the poverty alleviating role of micro-credit. He uses both quantitative and qualitative survey data for his research but is increasingly moving towards lab experiments.