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Gender price gaps and competition: Evidence from a correspondence study

I implement a large-scale field experiment in the US auto repair industry to study the existence and structure of gender-based price discrimination in service markets. Women receive price quotes that are 2 percent (over 9 dollars) higher than men. These differences disappear once women signal low search costs, suggesting statistical rather than tastebased discrimination. Price requests that appear to come from high-income households raise quotes for men but not women, also eliminating the gender gap. The price gap also falls with the number of nearby repair shops, suggesting that market competition alleviates gender-based price discrimination. JEL codes: C93, D4, J16, J18, J71