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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 …
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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 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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favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a …
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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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