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performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Affirmative action favoring …
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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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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
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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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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
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This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
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We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we … discrimination against migrants by the general population is both widespread and substantial. Our causal moderation analysis shows …
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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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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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-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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