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Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Valfort, Marie‐Anne - 2018

Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...

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Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize three correspondence studies of the Swedish labor...

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Racial Discrimination and White First Name Adoption : Evidence from a Correspondence Study in the Australian Labour Market

Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2020

We design and implement a correspondence study where we sent fictitious résumés with Chinese names and White names in response to both high-skilled and low-skilled job advertisements. Consistent with similar research elsewhere, we find that there is a large gap in getting interview offers when...

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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer

Dur, Robert; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...

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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Testing for Discrimination Against Lesbians of Different Marital Status : A Field Experiment

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2013

In this paper, a correspondence testing experiment is conducted to examine sexual orientation discrimination against lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent out in response to job advertisements: a heterosexual single, a married heterosexual, a single...

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Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks : A Field Experiment on #Econtwitter

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Ferman, Bruno; C. Sant'Anna, Pedro - 2023

This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on Twitter. Specifically, we created fictitious bot accounts that resembled humans and claimed to be PhD students in economics. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender...

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What's in a Name? Does Racial or Gender Discrimination in Marking Exist?

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Klauzner, Ilya; Slonim, Robert - 2021

We study whether racial or gender discrimination in marking exists at universities by conducting an experiment at a major Australian university where we randomly assigned names indicative of White, Chinese or Adopter identities (comprised of a White first name and Chinese surname) and male or...

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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity : Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Siddique, Abu - 2017

in preference for interethnic competition …

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Market Competition and Discrimination

Siddique, Abu - 2020

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment …

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