) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii … discrimination against an outgroup. We integrate both responses in a microeconomic model of hiring and pay decisions by an employer … hence enhances discrimination. …

Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the … fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study … data from the field of economics. No scientific bias or favoritism is found (although the Journal of Political Economy …

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the … widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following … the release of an academic study. Using new data, we confirm that racial bias persisted in the years after the study …

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the … widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following … the release of an academic study. Using new data, we confirm that racial bias persisted in the years after the study …

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … the optimal bias of the designer is in favor of the contestant with the larger or smaller prize valuation and examine the …

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … the optimal bias of the designer is in favor of the contestant with the larger or smaller prize valuation and examine the …

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … the optimal bias of the designer is in favor of the contestant with the larger or smaller prize valuation and examine the …