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out (by design) both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial …Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists … have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical …
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We measure the quality of applications for online peer-to-peer lending in Germany and relate it to gender … discrimination. The data context allows summarizing application quality as a single numeric measure, the expected internal rate of … return. The measure serves as a control variable and is interacted with the applicants' gender. We find that women enjoy …
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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 … have studied the topic intensively, typically taxonomizing discrimination as either taste-based or (accurate) statistical …
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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with …
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-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 …. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief …
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also face more discrimination in the labour market, the consequences of overeducation are likely to differ by gender. Using …
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