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The Price of Blue and Pink - Gender Pricing Under Scrutiny

Geoff Riley

21st January 2016

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There has been a lot of coverage in the media in recent days about a cluster of surveys which appear to show evidence of gender-pricing for more or less identical products - in other words price discrimination.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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