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We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the “missing girls” phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but potentially dangerous jobs. In response, employers invest less in workplace safety,...
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and improves his team's chance of winning. The results suggest that standard measures of salary discrimination that adjust …
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discrimination literature. Using rich data on racial prejudice from the General Social Survey, we find strong support for all of the …This paper tests the predictions about the relationship between racial prejudice and racial wage gaps from Becker …'s (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics …
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Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the … to the task of measuring discrimination, copious bibliographic data on the impact of academic research make possible … tests of discrimination in the editorial process. This study develops a test for possible bias thorn; with respect to author …
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-advising is likely to democratize access to financial services. Big data is likely to reduce the impact of negative prejudice in …
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Motivated by reports in the media suggesting unequal access to Covid-19 testing across incomes, we analyze zip-code level data on the number of Covid-19 tests, test results, and income per capita in New York City. We find that the number of tests administered is evenly distributed across income...
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The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it extraordinarily hard for the … legal system to know whether anyone has actually discriminated. To understand how algorithms affect discrimination, we must … therefore also understand how they affect the problem of detecting discrimination. By one measure, algorithms are fundamentally …
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Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this question, we study close elections for California city council seats between white and nonwhite candidates. We find that nonwhite candidates generate differential gains in housing...
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percentiles and male versus female sexism suggest that residential sexism affects labor market outcomes through prejudice …-based discrimination by men, and non-labor market outcomes through the influence of current norms of other women.Institutional subscribers …
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Housing discrimination is illegal. However, paired-tester audit experiments have revealed evidence of discrimination in … Discrimination Study and micro-level data on key attributes of neighborhoods in 28 US cities, we find strong evidence of … discrimination in the characteristics of neighborhoods towards which individuals are steered. Conditional upon the characteristics of …
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