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Do schools discriminate against homosexual parents? : evidence from an internet field experiment
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - 2015
The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual marriage and adoption of children. In this paper, we examine for the first time whether schools are...
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Cooperation and discrimination within and across language borders : evidence from children in a bilingual city
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528827
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The effect of photos and a local- sounding name on discrimination against ethnic minorities in Austria
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Schuster, Julia - 2021
A large body of research documents the existence of discrimination against migrants and ethnic minorities in the labour … market. This study investigates for Austria, to what degree employment discrimination against ethnic minorities is mitigated … and ethnic photographs, black but not Asian job applicants suffered from discrimination. With a local sounding name …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582518
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What happens when employers can no longer discriminate in job ads?
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing - 2021
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...
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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination: experimental evidence from basic information treatments
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022
economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804484
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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705540
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698191
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Shifting punishment on minorities: experimental evidence of scapegoating
Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2021
find that when no harm is done, there is no evidence of discrimination against the ethnic minority. In contrast, when a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596355
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Do inclusive education policies improve employment opportunities? : evidence from a field experiment
Agüero, Jorge M.; Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - 2020
In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, meritbased college scholarships targeting these students could convey two opposing signals to employers. There is a positive signal reflecting the candidate's cognitive ability (talented in high-school and able to maintain...
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Bias and discrimination: what do we know?
Della Giusta, Marina; Bosworth, Steven - 2020
The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389877