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. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of “bridge” jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
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may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …-side efforts to deter age discrimination, specifically studying whether stronger state-level age discrimination protections … age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …
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This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the … consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight key gaps in the literature and ripe … prevalence of discrimination, most notably audit and correspondence studies; it also describes several other measurement tools …
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This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …
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We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the intended beneficiary of affirmative action admission policies are made worse off could occur only if selective universities possess private information about students'...
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I estimate the effects of changing an ascriptive characteristic on a market outcome while keeping the average amount of information unchanged. Taking advantage of candidates' multiple appearances in elections to office in a professional association and of the presence of different photographs...
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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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Localities in developed countries often restrict construction and population growth through regulations governing land usage, lot sizes, building heights, and frontage requirements. In developing countries, such policies are less effective because of the existence of unregulated, informal...
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studies show age discrimination also plays a factor, especially for women. The paper concludes with suggestions for future …
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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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