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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical …
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-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …
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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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more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …
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terms of attrition, to grades received is not a gender-specific characteristic but more likely to reflect gender differences …
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redistribution from families with sons to families with daughters and can be implemented by a gender-specific schedule of public LTC … benefits and transfers to working children. If the policy is restricted to be gender neutral, we find that the informal care …
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adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure workers against earnings risk. Our experiment tests predictions from a …
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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …
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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
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