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In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … violence, especially when policymakers are searching for alternatives to aggressive policing and incarceration …
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are more effective is still unclear. In a randomized control trial that varies the salience of female and minority …
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measures of demographic diversity. DEI is also unrelated to general workplace policies and practices, suggesting that DEI …
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lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our … weaker job performance among most groups of minority and female Affirmative Action hires …
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This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...
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It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence … annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home … exploiting a unique data set in which children's school records are matched to domestic violence cases filed by their parent. To …
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workplace-related views toward transgender people and help us better understand employment discrimination against them … non-discrimination protection for transgender people. We also show that respondents severely underestimate the population … level of support for transgender individuals in the workplace, and we find that labor market support for transgender people …
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This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the … consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight key gaps in the literature and ripe … prevalence of discrimination, most notably audit and correspondence studies; it also describes several other measurement tools …
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Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly … experiments across several market and agent types to examine the nature and extent of discrimination. Our exploration includes … examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …
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This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...
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