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While it is well-established in the literature that obese people are discriminated against in the working environment, little is known about their own actual behavior. Our experimental setting investigates whether these potentially discriminated people respond in a different way when faced with...
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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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investment among boys and girls. We conduct an artifactual field experiment to identify parents’ inherent gender bias and then …This paper investigates whether parents’ inherent gender bias is associated with intrahousehold human capital …
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In this study, we investigate the extent and mechanisms of gender-based discrimination in urban Ecuador's hiring … practices, a critical issue for understanding persistent gender disparities and informing policy. Using an artifactual field … experiment with 392 recruiters evaluating observationally equivalent male and female job candidates, we uncover a significant …
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We design a field experiment to study gender differences in misconduct, a significant yet poorly understood issue. We … that 1 out of every 5 mobile money transactions is overcharged relative to a mandated rate. In an experiment, we randomize … the matches between vendors and customers, finding strong evidence of “gender misconduct gap”: female vendors are 40% more …
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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-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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-year field experiment with a top-10 undergraduate accounting program that randomized the gender composition of semester … resulting group gender compositions influence individuals' experiences and broader workplace dynamics. In this paper, we … investigate whether token women are disadvantaged compared to women on majority-women mixed-gender teams. We conducted a multi …
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In this paper we experimentally test the effect of an intervention aimed at encouraging females to enter the labor market in Madagascar. We randomly assigned students in their last year of secondary education to watch a role model or a placebo video. In the role model videos, a female or a male...
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