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find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before …
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We construct a dedicated web interface and use it to conduct a laboratory experiment to study willingness to lend and … neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related factors such as ethnicity and gender. By looking at both channels together …) lenders have a statistically significant preference for borrowers with whom they share gender and ethnic similarity even after …
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This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …
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identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further … turn induce taste-based discrimination. Religiosity may also relate to general prejudice. We test these hypotheses across …
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001812
more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …
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contrast to previous results at the secondary education level. Contrary to the gender composition at lower levels of education …
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We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …
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eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market …. These differentials are consistent with both statistical and taste-based discrimination. To identify the source of the …
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