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This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …
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-in-the-field experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no … evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the child caregivers. We also weigh-in on the … usefulness of non-incentivized experiments in discrimination experiments. …
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To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email …
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This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment … and survey information indicate that local and wholesale buyers do not have different tastes for discrimination. This …
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Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …
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We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been … according to the gender, race or ethnicity of the fictitious addressee. However, return rates are higher in more affluent …
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We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from …, discrimination against migrants does not differ by the perceived educational background of the email sender. However, it does differ … shares, and lower financial resources. Discrimination on the child care market likely perpetuates existing inequalities of …
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