This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …

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 … be the object of discrimination. A theoretical model is constructed that predicts that the choice to identify interacts …

The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and … on methods to contrast bias presenting evidence (where it exists) of their effectiveness. The second part of the paper … presents results of an experiment in revealing unconscious bias. …

-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 …

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 …

Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the … fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study … data from the field of economics. No scientific bias or favoritism is found (although the Journal of Political Economy …

effect having an opposite sign from the true effect. We present an expression for the asymptotic bias of both OLS and IV … estimators and discuss the conditions under which sign reversal may occur. We provide a method for eliminating this bias when …

matched photos as distinct visual cues. While results document employment discrimination for all groups with migration … background, it is most pronounced for applicants with an African background. To explain why and when discrimination occurs, a … discrimination in Austria. …