I present a new discrimination model of the labor market in which employers are initially uncertain about the productivity of worker groups and endogenously learn about it through their hiring. Previous hiring experiences of an employer shape their subsequent decisions to hire from a group again...

Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...

I present a statistical discrimination model of the labor market in which persistent negative employer biases about the productivity of a group of workers arise through hiring and learning about the group. Bayesian profit-maximizing employers endogenously develop biased beliefs based on their...

We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N = 1, 700). Participants act as employers who decide whether to use AA in hiring job candidates. We implement three treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from...

We introduce a new measure of stereotypes based on the principle of a multiple-price list: the elicitation of willingness to have an ethnic minority member in a team. We apply it on an example of the Roma in the Czech Republic and test on a sample of 100 students from the majority population. We...

We estimate the effects of unobserved skills on labor market outcomes by investigating a change in the distribution of unobserved skills. Among people with the same levels of observed skills such as education and work experience, there are still disparities in labor market outcomes. since...