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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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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical …
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-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …
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-in-the-field experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …
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We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through … variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of … mechanisms that induce gender inequality in resource access. …
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reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond …How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to … whether fixed traits such as country of birth or gender are more consequential. We find no evidence that immigrants can affect …
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gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … discrimination against women on average, but the gender effect is heterogeneous across occupations and firms. Women have a higher …In most countries, there are systematic age and gender differences in labor market outcomes. Older workers and women …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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