{"id":13817,"date":"2016-03-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2016-03-21T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T18:14:37","slug":"men-earn-more-money-when-they-sell-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/men-earn-more-money-when-they-sell-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Earn More Money When They Sell On Ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/croppedasklarry_business_desk1.jpg\" alt=\"eBay wage gap\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/croppedasklarry_business_desk1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/croppedasklarry_business_desk1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/croppedasklarry_business_desk1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Ian Sample wrote about a rather upsetting study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers found that women earn 20% less than men when selling the same products on eBay.<\/li>\n<li>The effect is due to both male and female shoppers bidding less for items sold by women.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s especially confusing since past research has indicated that women generally have better reputations as sellers\u00a0on eBay&#8217;s system than men.<\/li>\n<li>There are some categories where women are able to command a higher price than men. These include Barbie dolls and, oddly, pet food.<\/li>\n<li>Men, on the other hand, command a 270% premium on Nintendo Wiis, 61% on folding knives, and 20% on golf balls.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers suggest that eBay bidders start looking for female sellers &#8211; they&#8217;ll get a discount, and eventually, as more people catch on, the disparity will disappear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article has many more details and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/feb\/19\/ebay-study-shows-online-shoppers-are-subconsciously-sexist\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/feb\/19\/ebay-study-shows-online-shoppers-are-subconsciously-sexist\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Sample wrote about a rather upsetting study: Researchers found that women earn 20% less than men when selling the same products on eBay. The effect is due to both male and female shoppers bidding less for items sold by women. It&#8217;s especially confusing since past research has indicated that women generally have better reputations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/croppedasklarry_business_desk1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13820,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions\/13820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}