presents results of an experiment in revealing unconscious bias. …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 …

Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of … discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or … intensifies the emotional response to the object of discrimination. This paper builds on this insight based on the understanding …

understand bias and discrimination as mechanisms and potential points of intervention. …Most definitions of algorithmic bias and fairness encode decisionmaker interests, such as profits, rather than the … interests of disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial minorities): Bias is defined as a deviation from profit maximization. Future …

Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM …-2013 reveal a bias in favor of women that is strongly increasing with the extent of a field's male-domination. This bias turns …, physics or philosophy. These findings have implications for the debate over what interventions are appropriate to increase the …

-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 …-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …

We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with … over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we … discrimination against migrants by the general population is both widespread and substantial. Our causal moderation analysis shows …

discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically defined as discrimination in a legal sense … - what we label total discrimination in the current study -, although it cannot separate between preferences and statistical … discrimination. However, Heckman and Siegelman (1993) convincingly show that audit and correspondence studies can obtain biased …

In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both … the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or discrimination). Group identity is induced on subjects … combat favoritism/discrimination. This result also identifies one potential micro-foundation of societal unrest that may link …

set out a model explaining why differences in discrimination at the stage of invitation for interviews can arise when … recruiters display identical discriminatory attitudes in both sectors. The estimation of this model shows that discrimination at … the invitation stage is a poor predictor of discrimination at the hiring stage. This suggests that many correspondence …

investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives …