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Hochberg, Yael V.; Kakhbod, Ali; Li, Peiyao; Sachdeva, Kunal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems : Auditing the Algorithms

Zhang, Shuo; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We audit the job recommender algorithms used by four Chinese job boards by creating fictitious applicant profiles that differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their observed characteristics, with female jobs advertising...

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Measuring the extent of earnings discrimination : an update

Gaynor, Patricia E. - In: Applied economics 27 (1995) 8, pp. 669-676

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Gender wage differentials and discrimination in the new South Africa

Hinks, Timothy - In: Applied economics 34 (2002) 16, pp. 2043-2052

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The role of supervisors in the determination of wages and wage gaps

Pitts, J. D.; Orozco-Aleman, S.; Rezek, Jon P. - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 28/30, pp. 3533-3547

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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

Hu, Luojia - 2005

layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and …

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Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment

Lahey, Joanna - 2018

We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment … discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … to younger white applicants, and we find no evidence that the signal strength of the applicant's address varies by race …

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Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate : Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

Gneezy, Uri - 2012

examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...

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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Hellerstein, Judith - 2007

We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …

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