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Identifying and overcoming gender barriers in tech : a field experiment on inaccurate statistical discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383603
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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech : A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433073
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413206
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481528
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376243
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Understanding peer effects : on the nature, estimation, and channels of peer effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - In: Journal of labor economics 35 (2017) 2, pp. 387-428
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The effect of peer gender on major choice in business school
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2020
Business degrees are popular and lead to high earnings. Female business graduates, however, earn less than their male counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to high earnings. In this paper, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239613
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The effect of peer gender on major choice
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2017
This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market outcomes. Women who are randomly assigned to more female peers become less likely to choose male-dominated majors, they end up in jobs where they work fewer hours and their wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752332
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On the nature of peer effects in academic achievement
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362892