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People Playing Games : The Human Face of Experimental Economics (Presidential Address)

Eckel, Catherine C. - 2011

Experiments can be used not only to test theory but also to measure preferences and assess heterogeneity of behavior. I discuss the design of experimental measures of ahruism and trust, as well as their uses in assessing how behavior varies across individuals, and across partners that a given...

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Labor Market Discrimination and the Macroeconomy

Asali, Muhammad - 2019

Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the...

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Fair Labor Association

Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2021

, discrimination, health and safety concerns, freedom of association and collective bargaining, wages and benefits, hours of work, and …

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Costly Screening and Categorical Inequality

Fosgerau, Mogens - 2020

We consider a rationally inattentive screener who evaluates a pool of candidates composed of distinct and observable social categories. There is heterogeneity across categories in the costs of being screened, the degree of bias faced in the screening process, and the costs of investment in...

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Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring Decisions : A Meta-Analysis of Correspondence Tests 1990-2015

Zschirnt, Eva; Ruedin, Didier - 2016

For almost 50 years field experiments have been used to study ethnic and racial discrimination in hiring decisions, consistently reporting high rates of discrimination against minority applicants, irrespective of time, location, or minority groups tested. While Riach and Rich (2002) and Rich...

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Ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions : a meta-analysis of correspondence tests 1990-2015

Zschirnt, Eva; Ruedin, Didier - 2016 - Pre-print

For almost 50 years field experiments have been used to study ethnic and racial discrimination in hiring decisions, consistently reporting high rates of discrimination against minority applicants - including immigrants -, irrespective of time, location, or minority groups tested. While Riach and...

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Algorithmic Fairness and Economics

Cowgill, Bo - 2020

We develop an economic perspective on algorithmic fairness and the surrounding empirical, theoretical and policy issues. Our perspective draws from clear parallels between algorithms and issues in economics of discrimination, crime, personnel and technological innovation; as well as more subtle...

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Is it Sex or Personality? The Impact of Sex-Stereotypes on Discrimination in Applicant Selection

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2001

control for human capital (formal education, job experience etc.), there is usually no information on personality traits … available. We argue that personality might affect productivity just as human capital: For many traditionally male occupations (e … differently because "they are different" (they possess more "feminine" and less "masculine" personality traits on the average) or …

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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions

Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John H.; Haider, Steven J. - 2009

We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...

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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions

Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John Henry; Haider, Steven - 2009

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