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Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality : Evidence from an Online Marketplace

Li, Lingfang (Ivy) - 2016

generate sales that are nearly 30% higher and are sold by higher quality sellers. The market design implication is that …

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Age Discrimination in Hiring : Evidence from Age-Blind vs. Non-Age-Blind Hiring Procedures

Neumark, David - 2020

I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and partially age-blind hiring procedures. Under the first hiring procedure, age is revealed simultaneously with other applicant information and job offer rates are much lower for older than for younger job...

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Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring

Burn, Ian - 2019

We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes - as reflected in the language used in job ads - and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to older and younger job applicants from a previous resume (correspondence study) field experiment...

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Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment

Lahey, Joanna N. - 2018

We use a laboratory experiment with randomized resumes and eyetracking to explore the effects of race on employment discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age before re-emerging for older applicants....

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Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Neumark, David - 2018

We provide evidence from a field experiment in all 50 states on age discrimination in hiring for retail sales jobs. We …

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Machine Learning and Perceived Age Stereotypes in Job Ads : Evidence from an Experiment

Burn, Ian; Firoozi, Daniel; Ladd, Daniel; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore whether ageist stereotypes in job ads are detectable using machine learning methods measuring the linguistic similarity of job-ad language to ageist stereotypes identified by industrial psychologists. We then conduct an experiment to evaluate whether this language is perceived as...

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Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?

Neumark, David - 2013

We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on older workers. We use a difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy to compare older workers in states with stronger and weaker laws, to their younger counterparts, both...

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Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?

Chernenko, Sergey - 2018

We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more aggressively to accommodate inflows and outflows. As a...

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Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics

Shleifer, Andrei - 2010

Fire sales are forced sales of assets in which high-valuation bidders are sidelined, typically due to debt overhang … problems afflicting many specialist bidders simultaneously. We overview theoretical and empirical research on asset fire sales … the risk of fire sales, how fire sales can lead to downward spirals or cascades in asset prices, how arbitrage fails in …

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Forced Sales and House Prices

Campbell, John Y. - 2009

regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the prices of unforced sales are close to a random … walk. At the zipcode level, this suggests that unforced sales take place at approximately efficient prices, while forced-sales …

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