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Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects … the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender …' and authors' gender. With substantial research showing gender differences in fairness, the results suggest that an ethos …
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Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects … the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender …’ and authors' gender. With substantial research showing gender differences in fairness, the results suggest that an ethos …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228986
We examine work patterns in the U.S. from 1973-2018, with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work tripled, with 8 million additional four-day workers. Similar growth occurred in the Netherlands,...
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We examine work patterns in the U.S. from 1973-2018, with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work tripled, with 8 million additional four-day workers. Similar growth occurred in the Netherlands,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209873
The discrimination literature treats outcomes as relative. But does a differential arise because agents discriminate … randomly to students' exams that did/ did not contain names, we find favouritism but no discrimination by nationality, but … neither by gender. We are able to identify these preferences under a wide range of behavioural scenarios regarding the graders …
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Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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