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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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How is the Trade-Off between Adverse Selection and Discrimination Risk Affected by Genetic Testing? Theory and Experiment
Bardey, David - 2017
discrimination risk. CL allows agents to withhold that information, generating adverse selection. We complement our model with an …
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Prioritization vs. Zero-Rating : Discrimination on the Internet
Gautier, Axel - 2018
content at different speeds and it is equivalent to a discrimination in terms of quality. With zero-rating, the ISP charges … different prices for content and it is equivalent to a discrimination in terms of prices. We first show that neither of these …
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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination
Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015
be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …
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Adverse Selection vs Discrimination Risk with Genetic Testing. An Experimental Approach
Bardey, David; De Donder, Philippe; Mantilla, Cesar - 2021
a disease (a discrimination risk). Differently, Consent Law allows them to hide this detrimental information, creating …
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Discrimination in Dynamic Procurement Design with Learning-by-Doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre - 2021
paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries …
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Discrimination and Employment Protection
Holden, Steinar; Rosen, Asa - 2021
sustaining discrimination. In contrast to standard models, the existence of employers with a taste for discrimination may make it …
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Innovation Contests
Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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