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A broad body of interdisciplinary research establishes that transgender and non-binary individuals face discrimination …, including higher rates of depression and anxiety, suicidality, and PTSD. Therefore, understanding the role of discrimination in …-binary people face discrimination in mental healthcare markets. We provide the first experimental evidence, using an audit study, of …
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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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Even though social preferences affect nearly every facet of life, there exist many open questions on the economics of social preferences in markets. We leverage a unique opportunity to generate a large data set to inform the who's, what's, where's, and when's of social preferences through the...
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Recent changes in labor arrangements have increased interest in estimating and understanding the value of job flexibility. We leverage a large natural field experiment at Uber to create exogenous variation in expected market wages across individuals and over time. Combining this experiment with...
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household level. The results indicate that transferring ownership rights to men increased household consumption of some male …
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There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …
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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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concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector industries. With the steady decline in private sector unionization and rising … inequality among men but not among women. In both countries we find striking differences between the private and public sectors …
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fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal …
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Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can...
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