bias is measured through a novel loan application experiment conducted with 77 loan officers in Turkish banks. The analysis …,000 lower on average compared with men. Experience in the banking sector can attenuate this bias, with each year of experience … reducing gender biased loan allocations by 6 percent. The results suggest that loan officers may use gender bias as a heuristic …

coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely biased downward in coresident samples. But the bias in intergenerational …

This study analyzes the extent of downward bias in the calculation of inequality of opportunity for continuous outcomes … such as income. A typically recognized source of bias is the unobserved circumstances as there is a limited set of … levels, the study presents three key findings. First, the omission of a relevant circumstance can bias the inequality of …

evidence shows that rank-based measures are less affected by measurement error and life-cycle bias compared with other standard … average bias in rank correlation is less than half of that in intergenerational regression coefficient, and comparable to that … in intergenerational correlation in magnitude. The intercept estimates are biased upward, with the largest bias found in …

various types of measurement bias. This paper uses Engel curve estimations to assess bias in the consumer price index and its …, poverty reduction may be understated because of consumer price index bias. With correction of consumer price index bias … adjusting for consumer price index bias for the other three countries …

Estimation of empirical relationships is prone to bias. Economists have carefully studied sources of bias in structural … between certain practices and biased estimates, can be used to reduce the risk of bias in economics RCTs. It identifies the … subset of these lessons applicable to economics and uses them to assess risk of bias in estimates from economics RCTs …

corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …