observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …

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 …

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 …

One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … negotiations. By using a natural field experiment that randomizes nearly 2,500 job-seekers into jobs that vary important details of … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …

explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …