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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …
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. This preference bias is widespread, similar in size to discrimination against immigrants, and increases with age. Next, we …
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consequences? In a laboratory experiment, we study three different quota rules in tournaments that favor individuals whose … performance is low, either due to discrimination, low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Affirmative action favoring …
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This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualized as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...
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knowledge. To assess the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …
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averse preferences, as in Fehr and Schmidt (1999). We conduct an artefactual ultimatum game experiment with registered …
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This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied … discrimination, namely, change of the contestants ́prize valuations as well as bias of the impact of their efforts. Optimal twofold … discrimination is often superior to any single mode of discrimination under any logit CSF. Our main result establishes that …
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beliefs and actions among Muslim subjects. There is taste-based discrimination but no statistical discrimination. All our …
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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a … framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and group affiliation). Discrimination is prevalent in our subjects …
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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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