Online colloquia are academic webinars where we build research communities on interdisciplinary themes. There will be 1 or 2 presenters of a recent and relevant topic, after which we'll discuss the topic and it's relevance for our own academic work. This meeting will be the second gathering for researchers interested in Skills and AI. Feel free to join the meeting to explore this interesting theme!
Speaker: Catalina Franco
Title: Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Achieving Gender Equality?
Catalina Franco will discuss a working paper that she co-authored and recently published. The paper was also featured in the Economist, which you can read here: Why don’t women use artificial intelligence? (economist.com)
Will Artificial Intelligence Get in the Way of Achieving Gender Equality?
Daniel Carvajal, Catalina Franco & Siri Isaksson
The growing importance of AI in the labor market makes it crucial to understand how it may influence pre-existing inequalities. We conduct two survey experiments to examine gender differences in generative AI adoption and potential labor market consequences. First, we document a substantial gender gap among students at a top business school in Norway, with female students, particularly top students, opting out of AI use. Second, a survey of managers shows that acquiring AI skills would significantly enhance job prospects for top female students currently opting out. Finally, we provide causal evidence on policy tools to close this gap. Our findings show that generative AI could widen existing gender gaps in the labor market, but appropriate encouragement and policies can prevent this outcome.
The current version of the paper can be found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4759218