conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … with high math content when assigned to a group with many girls. Overall, however, we fail to find substantial gender peer …

's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that … two workers earned based on their performance in a mathematical task. Across two treatments, I modify beliefs about the …

This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to … employees expect to be favored. The manager, who has no taste for discrimination, discriminates in order to avoid demotivating …

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two …-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade … trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism, reduces the matching probability and output in the skilled …

It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs … or "wishful thinking". However, there is little direct causal evidence for this effect. In our experiment, participants …

university students. We run a field experiment with 2,978 university students from one of the largest Dutch universities. The …

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two …

In the labor market, statistical discrimination occurs when employers' beliefs about workers' behavior induce different … beliefs of the employers are self-fulfilling. Theoretically and in an experiment, we investigate under what circumstances … statistical discrimination occurs. We confirm the experimental results of Fryer, Goeree and Holt (2005) who do not find systematic …

works in anindividual decision experiment. Subjects are faced with a sequentialsearch problem. After extensive practice …