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eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market …. These differentials are consistent with both statistical and taste-based discrimination. To identify the source of the …
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examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …Social scientists have presented evidence that suggests discrimination is ubiquitous: women, nonwhites, and the elderly … experiments across several market and agent types to examine the nature and extent of discrimination. Our exploration includes …
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In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …
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This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably … applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The results provide statistically significant evidence of sex discrimination …
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discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from women in the same way differences between other groups in work and … housing have been explained. Rather, this paper constructs a 'pollution' theory model of discrimination in which new female …
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Community targeting of vote payments — defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections — is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize laboratory experiments conducted in the U.S. and Kenya to demonstrate that, relative to individual...
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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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, can affect outcomes. We explore the economics of revealing type in a simple laboratory experiment to learn about the … underlying motivations for discrimination …
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success in the tournament. Finally, we find that cheating/fudging on the experiment responds to the level of inequality and …
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