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  1. PDF Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence against a Systematic Price Premium

    In cases where the men's and women's products are different sizes, the report re-scales prices using the ratio of sizes (e.g., by multiplying the price per oz of the men's product by the size of the women's product).15 It arrives at a 13% pink tax via a simple average across categories.

  2. PDF The Pink Tax: The Persistence of Gender Price Disparity

    the pink tax as a female. Lastly, before concluding, Part three of this research will consider next steps in the life of the pink tax, including ways forward to achieve possible solutions and the significance of publicizing individual experiences with the pink tax. II. Background II-1. Defining the Pink Tax

  3. PDF The Pink Tax How Gender-Based Pricing Hurts Women's Buying Power

    research suggests that they make 85 percent of all consumer purchases in the United States. Their share of food purchases is even higher. Three in four women report that they are their home's primary shopper.9 The "Pink Tax": A Markup on Goods and Services Marketed to Women

  4. PDF Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence against a Systematic Price Premium

    The pink tax refers to an alleged empirical regularity: that products targeted toward women are more expensive than similar products targeted toward men. This paper leverages a national dataset of grocery, convenience, and mass merchandiser sales, in ... Malika Korganbekova, and Jason Zhao for excellent research assistance. Researcher(s) own ...

  5. The "Pink Tax" and Gender Price Disparity in Personal Care

    The "Pink Tax" refers to charging higher prices for products and services marketed primarily to women compared to similar or identical items targeted at men, despite comparable production costs. This research uses Unilever as a case study to focus on the impact of the Pink Tax on women's purchasing power, particularly within the personal care industry. The study provides a comprehensive ...

  6. PDF Beyond the Pink Tax: Gender-Based Pricing and ...

    pink tax are founded on essentialist thinking about gender, and further reify gender structures and inequality in society. Keywords Pink tax · Gender branding · Gender discrimination · Gender dierentiation Introduction Extensive research has shown that signicant and persistent pay gaps exist on the basis of gender, race and ethnicity.

  7. Beyond the Pink Tax: Gender-Based Pricing and Differentiation of

    Previous research has established a pricing disparity of consumer goods and services by gender such that women pay more for the same products and services than men, the so-called pink tax. This study expands this research by examining whether these price disparities persist across a wider range of personal care products including lotions, deodorants, shaving gels/creams, razors, razor ...

  8. The Pink Tax: Why Do Women Pay More?

    This price differential is generated by a 15% higher average per unit price paid by women on explicitly gendered products, like personal care items, as well as a 3.8% higher average per unit price paid by women on ungendered products, like packaged food items. Higher prices paid by women could be the result of differences in demand elasticity ...

  9. [PDF] Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price

    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3882214 Corpus ID: 243416921; Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price Premium for Women in CPG @article{Bhatia2021InvestigatingTP, title={Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price Premium for Women in CPG}, author={Natasha Bhatia and Sarah Moshary and Anna E. Tuchman}, journal={SSRN Electronic Journal}, year={2021}, url={https ...

  10. Gender-Based Pricing in Consumer Packaged Goods: A Pink Tax?

    This paper investigates a controversial application of a textbook pricing practice: gender-based price segmentation, which has allegedly created a pink tax whereby products targeted at women are more expensive than comparable products marketed toward men. Our results

  11. PDF Pink Tax: The Quantum Leap for Gender Equality

    according to a paper from 2021 titled "Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price Premium for Women in CPG". The study raises the issue of whether or not the pink tax is still in effect. Reason for existence of 'Pink Tax' The elimination of the sexist and inconsiderate tampon tax

  12. PINK TAX: -A PRICE DISCRIMINATION WITH UNFORTUNATE FEMALES

    This paper uses 336 state tax changes across the U.S. spanning 42 years (1956-1997) to provide an updated look at the quasi-experimental price elasticities of cigarette demand.

  13. Pink Tax: As a Form of Gender Identity in International Products?

    The Pink Tax weakens women's purchasing. power by forcing them to spend more money on their daily needs, this. creates unfair gender-based pricing. This study aims to analyze the. effect of gender ...

  14. Pink Tax and Other Tropes by Bridget J. Crawford :: SSRN

    Abstract. Law reform advocates should be strategic in deploying tax tropes. This Article examines five common tax phrases—the "nanny tax," "death tax," "soda tax," "Black tax," and "pink tax"—and demonstrates that tax rhetoric is more likely to influence law when used to describe specific economic injustices resulting from actual government duties, as opposed to ...

  15. PDF UnPinking Discrimination: Exploring the Pink Tax and its ...

    pink tax. Eliminating the pink tax is a step forward towards gender equality, which is also the 5th Sustainable Development Goal of the UN. Through this paper, the author aims to increase awareness about the pink tax and to initiate discussions about combating it. 1.0 Introduction

  16. Debunking the Feminist Economic Myth Verses Reality—The Pink Tax

    Saxena , in the research paper 'A Legal Study of the Applicability of Pink Tax in India' researcher has highlighted that the pink tax is not actually a tax but it is an additional price which compel to pay the customers on female products. Researcher emphasized to take some necessary measures from the policymakers to prevent this gender ...

  17. What is the 'pink tax' and how does it hinder women?

    The pink tax has long imposed an economic burden on women around the world—especially since women continue to earn less than men. The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2022, released this week, found that when it comes to wage equality for similar work, only five out of the 146 countries analysed achieved scores higher than 0.80.

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    Research Working Papers ... We study the question of whether women, on average, pay a price premium — a so-called "pink tax" — for the products they buy. A particular concern facing policy makers is whether such differences are a form of gender based price discrimination. Using scanner data, we find that averaged across the entire ...

  19. What Is the Pink Tax? Impact on Women, Regulation, and Laws

    The study's authors found that "imports of women's goods, on average, are taxed 0.7% more than imports of men's goods" and contribute to the pink tax. They also found that increasing ...

  20. How Do Female and Male Consumers Respond to a "Pink Tax"?

    Abstract. This paper examines the attitude of consumers living in Germany towards higher. prices charged to female consumers by surveying them randomly in two scenarios, one. showing the same ...

  21. (PDF) PINK TAX

    The pink tax segregates women and often causes life-threatening consequences. This paper will analyze the effects of the pink tax through commodities being sold in the world-famous city of New York in the States. The NYC government is the only government that took action to undergo comprehensive research on such an important topic.

  22. How the 'Pink Tax' inflates prices on women's personal care products

    Study reveals how gender-based pricing in personal care products, known as the Pink Tax, burdens women financially through strategic marketing tactics, often unrelated to actual production costs.

  23. PDF A Legal Study of The Applicability of Pink Tax in India

    IJCRT2208172 International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) www.ijcrt.org b377 ... OF PINK TAX IN INDIA Rajat Saxena1 1 Assistant Professor, Institute of Legal Studies, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow ABSTRACT-Did you ever thought or noticed that why the products designed for the females are more expensive than man? So ...