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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...
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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to … not regard homosexuality as a mental illness increased social acceptance of sexual minorities, but only for those who …
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial composition before China entered the global market in 2001....
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We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the U.S. using a two-stage field … discrimination across social groups. In the second stage, we exogenously endow Black and White profiles with the same networks and … ask connected users for career advice. We find no evidence of direct discrimination in information provision. However …
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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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: There is no gender gap in either case. These results rule out traditional models of discrimination. Instead, we show that …
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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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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 compare the differential political career progression of...
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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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We study whether tweets about racial justice predict the offline behaviors of nearly 20,000 US academics. In an audit study, academics that tweet about racial justice discriminate more in favor of minority students than academics that do not tweet about racial justice. Racial justice tweets are...
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