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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies …
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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …
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different gender, race, or ethnic groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider … have a choice about how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new approach to identifying statistical discrimination … using doctors' choices about signaling their gender. We find evidence of statistical discrimination against female doctors …
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Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender …, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the …
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This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women … and men in real high-stakes exams. We make use of a natural experiment in which the institute administering Israel …'s standardized college admission tests amended the language used in its exams, making test language more gender neutral. We find that …
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Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor and spatial aptitudes. These … of gender based occupational segregation by 20-23 percent in 1970 and 2012. Eliminating selection on DOT variables …
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In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
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correspondence experiment, we grade the race and gender contact gaps of 97 U.S. employers, the identities of which we disclose for … information content of the assigned grades against the expected frequency of ranking errors. Applying the method to a massive …
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similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in … partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language …
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