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Toward an Understanding of Discrimination When Multiple Channels Exist

Ahmadi, Majid; Clochard, Gwen-Jirō; Lachman, Jeff; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

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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Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

Boudreau, Laura; Chassang, Sylvain; Gonzalez-Torres, Ada; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Keeping Up Appearances : An Experimental Investigation of Relative Rank Signaling

Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Hernandez-Nunez, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers : Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership

Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …

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Gender Reveals in the Labor Market : Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market

He, Haoran; Neumark, David; Weng, Qian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Ashraf, Nava; Delfino, Alexia; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers …

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The Geography of Opportunity after the Civil War : Black and White Americans' Intra- and Intergenerational Mobility into Property Ownership

Collins, William J.; Holtkamp, Nicholas C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

economic advance, but racism and discrimination slowed their mobility into property ownership …

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Racial Screening on the Big Screen? Evidence from the Motion Picture Industry

Zhong, Liang; Crema, Angela; Paserman, Marco Daniele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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Application Flows

Davis, Steven J.; Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We build and analyze a new U.S. database that links 125 million applications to job vacancies and employer-side clients on Dice.com, an online platform for jobs and workers in software design, computer systems, engineering, financial analysis, management consulting, and other occupations that...

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Beyond Racial Attitudes : The Role of Outside Options in the Dynamics of White Flight

Blair, Peter Q. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

When the fraction of minorities in a neighborhood exceeds the tipping point white flight accelerates. I develop a revealed-preference method to estimate the tipping points of 38,000 census tracts and the preferences of households for minority neighbors in the 123 Metropolitan Statistical Areas...

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