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dissect two specific channels of discrimination: customer bias and managerial bias. To illustrate our framework, we integrate … proprietary data with several publicly available datasets to uncover channels of discrimination within the Major League Baseball … on measuring discrimination and addressing the challenge of multiple channels …
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We develop a model of discrimination that allows us to interpret observed differences in outcomes across groups …, conditional on passing a screening test, as taste-based (employer,) statistical, or customer discrimination. We apply this …
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. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers …
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We investigate the potential welfare cost of relative rank considerations using a series of vignettes and lab-in-the-field experiments with over 2,000 individuals in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We show that: (1) individuals judged to be of a lower rank are perceived as more likely to be sidelined from...
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We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers is responsible for the misbehavior? How isolated are its...
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-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …
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A recent approach to testing for customer statistical discrimination involves studying price gaps between sellers from … a similar setting, testing for statistical discrimination against female doctors in an online health care market. But we … show that this kind of analysis does not provide evidence on statistical discrimination in this setting because doctors …
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economic advance, but racism and discrimination slowed their mobility into property ownership …
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To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies that provide visas to skilled entrepreneurs. This paper investigates whether these policies influence the founding location choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the...
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Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some...
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