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-scale, incentivized lab-in-field-experiment based on the investment game, allowing us to assess the in-group bias of native German … students in their interactions with fellow natives (in-group) versus immigrants (out-group). We find in-group bias peaks in …
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of adopted babies by 6% and 33%, respectively. -- child adoption ; gender bias ; racial bias ; search ; matching …
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We study market rents in the neighborhood of asylum seeker hosting centers. Our empirical setting exploits the quasi-random opening of centers and spatial allocation of asylum seekers in Switzerland. Rents within 0.7km of an active center are found on average to be 3.8% lower than rents in the...
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This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 … women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …
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.g. gender, race, sugar) have a stronger effect when the attribute is mixed with others, and so the decision becomes less …
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by 8 - 15% compared to only offering a pay-per-use contract. -- access services ; pricing contracts ; decision biases …
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Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the … widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following … the release of an academic study. Using new data, we confirm that racial bias persisted in the years after the study …
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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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