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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a …-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and group affiliation). Discrimination is prevalent in our subjects …, since they allocate more than half of their endowment to the in-group. The extent of discrimination does not differ between …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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discrimination may also be a factor. …
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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations...
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Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
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away money from the group. Our results speak to a long-standing debate on the causes of racism and discrimination and …
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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 … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
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