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Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer …
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This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …
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Transgender individuals face high levels of discrimination including in healthcare. Lack of adequate legal protections … practices due to the costs of discrimination. We conduct an audit study with male and transgender standardized patients visiting … private health care clinics in Pakistan and find evidence of discrimination in non-obvious domains. Physicians differentiate …
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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …
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We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from …, discrimination against migrants does not differ by the perceived educational background of the email sender. However, it does differ … shares, and lower financial resources. Discrimination on the child care market likely perpetuates existing inequalities of …
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We study discrimination in hiring and its associated outcomes for the discriminators using a unique survey of Egyptian … businesses. Discrimination against women is widespread and overt: about half (51%) of establishments directly admit that they … randomization technique, we can rule out that discrimination against women is heavily stigmatized in Egypt, meaning that …
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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …
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to their control counterparts, suggesting overconfidence bias as a potential mechanism behind taste-based discrimination. …
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more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …
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We propose a new method which allows for measuring separately taste based discrimination from statistical … discrimination in the hiring process. We consider two types of statistical discriminations against women: first, when a recruiter … experimental data from which we obtain optimal estimates of the discrimination components. The method is applied to three …
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