We study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using a unique historical experiment. During WWII, Stalin … deported over 2 million people---mostly Germans and Chechens---to Siberia and Central Asia solely based on their ethnicity. As …

This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …

discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …

minority) in groups with different ethnic compositions. In homogeneous treatments, which consists of one ethnicity, we find no …

a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …

taste-based bias, we analyze two field experiments. Our first experiment shows that providing evaluators with automated … performance measures does not reduce the gender gap. Our second experiment removed video interaction, and compared blind to non …-blind evaluations. No gender gap is present in either case. These results rule out traditional economic models of discrimination …