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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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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 …. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we find that migrants receive 4.4 percentage points fewer responses …
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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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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the … discrimination ; ethnic discrimination ; labour market tightness ; field experiments …
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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 present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … discrimination against migrants by the general population is both widespread and substantial. Our causal moderation analysis shows … that migrants with higher education and female migrants experience significantly less discrimination. Discrimination is …
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students in their interactions with fellow natives (in-group) versus immigrants (out-group). We find in-group bias peaks in … culturally polarized classrooms foster negative stereotypes about immigrants' trustworthiness and amplify taste …-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …
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This paper proposes a novel empirical strategy to estimate the causal effects of federal "redlining" - the mapping and grading of US neighborhoods by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC). In the late 1930s, a federal agency created color-coded maps to summarize the financial risk of granting...
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Firms increasingly delegate job screening to third-party recruiters, who must not only satisfy employers’ demand for different types of candidates, but also manage yield by anticipating candidates’ likelihood of accepting offers. We study how recruiters balance these objectives in a novel,...
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