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by 40 percent and others being particularly effective for minority women. The heterogeneities we find by gender, race …We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test several approaches to attract … recruiting materials. We find that self-selection at two early-career stages exhibits a substantial race gap. Importantly, we …
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. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …
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We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … it is important to avoid generalisations on the presence of gender gaps in attitudes towards competition. This being the …
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We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological …
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, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these disparities exist across family resources and race. Focusing on … the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Racial, ethnic, and gender minorities face mental health disparities. While mental health care can help, minoritized … provide the first experimental evidence, from a correspondence audit field experiment ("simulated patients" study), of the …
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This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...
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This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees … rates and alter the diversity of the applicant pool. …
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it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women … show differences in their willingness to speak in public. The experiment involved more than 500 undergraduate students who … prepare enable to close the gender gap. …
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