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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … out (by design) both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial … the specific forms of discrimination identified in our experiment. …
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In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared … contribution framing responded more strongly to reward thresholds and suggestions. An additional survey experiment on MTurk …
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discrimination. To enrich this taxonomy, we design a hiring experiment that rules out both of these sources of discrimination along … the gender dimension. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination against women. We provide evidence of two forms of …Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists …
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. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief …-based gender discrimination. We document evidence of explicit discriminators-individuals who are willing to discriminate even when …This paper studies a key element of discrimination, namely when stereotypes translate into discriminatory actions …
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We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring … cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the … spatially differentiated competition is characterized by sorting, crowding-in, and an absence of spillovers: Donors sort …
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We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
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this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …
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A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …
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. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … experimental design. In contrast to the literature, our results imply that the whole gender gap is driven by risk attitudes and …
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