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gender, ethnicity, age, and employment status in the Swedish rental market for apartments. Our results confirm the existence …
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, the gender gap is smaller in the Mosuo. Regressions show that socio-economic factors such as family size, family head …
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minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic … groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no statistically significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are … hypothesis that institutional changes can narrow the gender gap in competitive inclination. …
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This study shows that transient anonymity affects buyer discrimination based on seller’s gender and foreignness in … online auctions. Sellers’ names are categorized by gender and foreignness. Half of the sellers’ disclose their names in the … usernames and the other half employ anonymous usernames, concealing gender and foreignness. After the price is set and the …
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We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …
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We find that landlords practice subtle discrimination in the rental housing market through the use of language associated with describing and viewing a unit, inviting further correspondence, making a formal greeting, and using polite language when replying to e-mail inquiries from a white name...
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special attention given to the roles of gender and race. While the analysis reveals no overt bias in salary growth decisions …
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market using official statistics since race can only be inferred from native language. Moreover, employers may think that … hypotheses through a field experiment in the labor market. The experiment consisted on sending fictitious curriculums (CVs … distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …
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to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and … the utility indicator function in Arrow and Debreu. As it happens, to exhibit diversity of persons by social identity …
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Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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