resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance … implication of our findings is that discrimination in the capital market spills over to the labour market, leading to the …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

out both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination …Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists … have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical …

: There is no gender gap in either case. These results rule out traditional models of discrimination. Instead, we show that … administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … women, and its effect on winning a Congressional race is five times larger for men than women. These gaps emerge early in …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …

We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …