Gender-Inclusive Language and Economic Decision-Making

The authors thank Matthias Sutter, John List, and Simone Valerie Häckel-Schermer for discussing the project with them. The authors thank the European ESA Mentoring group (Anna Dreber, Kim Fairley, Stefanie Huber, Dorothea Kübler, Noemi Peter, and Margaret Samahita) for very helpful comments and suggestions. Moreover, the authors thank Miloš Fišar and Geoffrey Castillo for their help with the data collection. The constructive discussions and valuable feedback at the Economics Department Internal Seminar of the University of Exeter, Workshop on Social Behavior and Discrimination 2022 at Universitè Paris Nanterre, Micro T&E Seminar of the Lund University School of Economics and Management, NOeG Winter Workshop 2022, WIFO Research Seminar, 5th Reading Experimental and Behavioural Economics Workshop 2023, Diversity and Human Capital Workshop Exeter 2023, ESA European Meeting 2023, Colloquium on Economics of the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU), Newcastle Experimental Economics Workshop 2023, Research Seminars at the University of Gothenburg, and the Workshop on Preferences, Traits and Skills at the University of Amsterdam are also very much appreciated.

The funders had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, publishing decision, or manuscript preparation. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising.

This study has been reviewed by the University of Exeter Research Ethics Committee (approval number 514740) and the ethics committee at the University of Innsbruck (Certificate of Good Standing, 18/2022) and received a favorable review. We have obtained informed consent from all participants.

The custom code that supports the study’s findings is available at https://osf.io/8ak5x/?view_only=6c74b759ac5847a59bfc277bcd365b91. The oTree code is available on request. The data sets generated and analyzed for this research project are available at https://osf.io/8ak5x/?view_only=6c74b759ac5847a59bfc277bcd365b91.