We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more … hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test … this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a …

. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be … studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty – the ambiguity triangle – and show that … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 …

gap that often characterizes choices under uncertainty by means of a higher loss rather than risk aversion …This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes … truncation of the data, allows to precisely estimate both risk aversion and risk seeking, and is not affected by the degree of …

are perceived to be less productive, on average, than male workers. "Second-moment" discrimination would occur when risk … discrimination in a labor market setting. Since decision-makers may not view risk in the same way as economists or statisticians (i ….e., risk-variance of distribution), we also examine two possible alternative measures of risk: the support of the distribution …

consequences? In a laboratory experiment, we study three different quota rules that favor individuals whose performance is low … coincide with a higher willingness to compete and less retaliation against winners. No policy harms overall efficiency or post-competition …

experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before …

study, we perform a name categorization experiment in the United States that yields 56 names associated with six ethnicity …

, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender …

This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against … small or competition is weak, the policy removes job segregation and the wage gap completely. However, with a bigger taste … for discrimination or stronger competition, equal pay legislation leads to more job segregation, and sometimes minority …