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Can we test for bias in scientific peer-review?

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008

fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study …

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The prostitute's allure: Examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010

commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …

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Political culture and discrimination in contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

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Costless discrimination and unequal achievements in a labour market experiment

Filippin, Antonio; Guala, Francesco - 2011

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …

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Diversity and public goods: A natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012

Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...

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Bayesian inference for duration data with unobserved and unknown heterogeneity : Monte Carlo evidence and an application

Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2004

This paper describes a semiparametric Bayesian method for analyzing duration data. The proposed estimator specifies a complete functional form for duration spells, but allows flexibility by introducing an individual heterogeneity term, which follows a Dirichlet mixture distribution. I show how...

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Generalized Selection Bias and the Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

The major contribution of this paper is ending a new and flexible way to measure the effects of selection on log-wages. In this context, we offer a general approach to performing decomposition analysis when selection effects are present. We call the difference between unconditional and...

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On identification of Bayesian DSGE models

Koop, Gary; Pesaran, Hashem; Smith, Ron P. - 2011

In recent years there has been increasing concern about the identification of parameters in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Given the structure of DSGE models it may be difficult to determine whether a parameter is identified. For the researcher using Bayesian methods, a...

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Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of dynamic discrete choice models

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

Dynamic discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female labor supply model based on a sample size which is typical for common household panels. We provide...

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